Installing Gentoo 2008.0 Live CD

Posted by suvi under Gentoo

Traditionally, Gentoo Linux has been a distribution designed more towards the more experienced Linux user, perhaps the ‘power user’, if you will.
Its source-based package management and offering the user complete control over the system installation and configuration have meant that traditionally, it can be difficult to approach.
Having myself tried and failed to install Gentoo in [...]

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Making Sense of Gentoo’s USE Flags

Posted by suvi under Gentoo, Linux

One of the best features of the Gentoo Linux Distribution is the fact that you can customize it to suit whatever needs your Operating System should provide. This stems from the fact that, because it is a “source-based” distribution, you can enable or disable different features in certain programs before the source code gets built [...]

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Learning Gentoo

Posted by suvi under Gentoo

This week I have installed Gentoo, I made it using the Live CD once there I have used the text interface to install it, with the expert option, and using Networkless, so it is more or less like installing the Debian base system.
Once that installed (the instructions were easy to follow), I installed xorg
emerge xorg-x11
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