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You probably know eix the portage indexer . If not, you should use it. I just discovered that and it is awesome, too bad the documentation ...

skypipe is a really nice idea about an ubiquitous named pipe on the net. Basically it allows you to pipe data on a shell from one machine ...

I found this tip on the net and I love it. emerge getmail or pip install getmail then follow the guide there  :  http://howto.wired.com...

Beeing on the linux gentoo beta (~amd64) for my desktop machines is often seen by people as a pure "loss of productivity" as a sof...

To break this really annoying pattern on restricted packages : You are root, you do your "emerge --keep-going --ask --update --newuse ...

You can add profiles in an overlay but the selection has to be manual : you cannot use eselect profile out of the box. # eselect profile l...

This morning, as usual I forgot to rebuild x11 drivers after a minor update of xorg-server and boom, xdm starts, can't do anything even ...

After years of tinkering with gentoo and feeding my custom overlay I discovered today the "user patches" feature of portage. Thi...

No need to defragment linux ever ?! Try that and see for yourself. As the title of this blog says I'm using gentoo. I just love this s...

Step 1 : Create a local overlay if you don't have one. (if you already have one, skip to step 2) mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/myoverla...

This is a shortened version of the gentoo tutorial on crossdev & distcc. I made it work between my Xoom running a chrooted gentoo and ...

Prerequisites a rooted xoom busybox installed a terminal emulator (Better Terminal Pro works perfectly) a large enough & prefer...

Often after a recovery with photorec/testdisk or any other recovery tools, you just have a flat list of files named by their index where the...

Starting a large update like KDE, going to bed and discovering that it failed on the not really important 3rd package the next morning is ki...