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Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.

Gentoo Linux is a source-based Linux distro that uses the Portage package management system.

It is not meant for Beginner Linux users, but rather Intermediate and Advanced ones who are familiar with the command line and kernel compilation (because, during install, the user will have to compile the kernel herself).

Packages (through the Portage system) are also distributed in source form, and compiled to binaries on the user's system upon fetch and installation. The Portage system is smart enough to automatically fetch (and compile) any dependencies a package needs before it gets compiled.

The benefit of Gentoo Linux would be a highly customized -- and thus potentially higher-performing -- system that matches exactly what the user has, without the baggage of unnecessary code that makes the system bigger and/or slower.

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Gentoo server with suPHP cannot create child processes - out of memory

The exact error message is this: 12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn't create child process: /usr/sbin/suphp for This is not a VPS, it's a generic Gentoo server. There is 1G of RAM for the server and 700M of RAM free at any given…
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Help me install APC on Gentoo

I have PHP 5.2 and Gentoo base system version 1.6.14 I launched: emerge dev-php5/pecl-apc But it failed at: * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... …
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BIND periodically stops responding to local network queries

I have a very strange intermittent issue with BIND. I am running a redhat server (although my Gentoo boxes do the same thing periodically) and every once in awhile if you change the zone file in any way, it suddenly wont respond to queries. When you…
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Python 3.* on Gentoo

How to install python 3.* on Gentoo without compiling by hand? Are there any ebuild or overlay for this? UPDATE: now it's absolutely possible without any hacks
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Setting up libvirt with remote access on gentoo: not listening tls port

I'm trying to set up libvirtd on my headless gentoo server. I'd like to have remote control via tls. I've followed libvirt remote access guide, but it don't work for me: client virt-manager shows following error: unable to connect to libvirtd at…
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emerge only prints it's parameters along with "Wrong gcc version" message

Our gentoo server has been left in inconsistent state. I don't know what have been done wrong previously, but now I need to fix the system somehow. I've tried to do revdep-rebuild, but it has…
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How to emerge different versions , ebuilds of php

I'm trying to compile a lower version of php (5.2) as gentoo is selecting 5.3 and i'm having some coding issues with the new version nano /etc/portage/package.use =dev-lang/php-5.2.14 ~amd64 still when I emerge emerge -av php is stil selecting…
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how can I figure out how much a server will "take" until it goes unresponsive

I have a problem that probably MANY people have, and it's servers that are going "unresponsive" over the time The problem: HOW can I figure it out how much a server can handle, I never did studies on the capacity of the servers, load balancing…
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Apache 2.2.16 + PHP 5.2.14 sometimes causes Apache to not stop properly

Sometimes, Apache decides not to shut down nicely. killall apache2 or kill -9 (apache2 PID here) shuts it down so that it can actually start back up without the port being in use. Other posts seem to indicate that PHP 5.2 might have issues hanging…
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How to modify an ebuild on Gentoo

This is my first time using Gentoo and I am quite lost. I want to install Nginx. The current ebuild does not have support for limitproxy http://nginxlimitproxy.sourceforge.net I can see I have to modify SRC_URI to add the source of the new plugin.…
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Monitoring HP and Dell hardware in Gentoo

I'm working in an environment that features a large number of Gentoo servers running on HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge equipment. While I've moved some of these systems to RedHat or CentOS for consistency, I'm still left with a good number of…
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crontab -e on gentoo failing: "chown: Operation not permitted"

I can't run crontab -e as a regular user on a gentoo box I've got. Here's a transcript: ben@tools ~ $ crontab -e # (I add something trivial, like a new line containing "#foo") crontab: installing new crontab chown: Operation not…
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Xen kernel can't see 2 disks of 6 of 1TB, does it have a limitation?

Linux gentoo-xen 2.6.18-xen-r12 #3 SMP Tue Oct 5 09:28:53 PDT 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I have 6 disks of 1 TB and i can't see all of them only 4, can anyone give me an ideea what can i do ? Filesystem …
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openvz quota error on gentoo

My system is Gentoo amd64, with latest update. I emerged the latest openvz, and want to start a Ubuntu VPS on my system. I am using the 'basic' configuration file, and the quota options are set as default, as…
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Kernel compilation options on gentoo with genkernel

I use genkernel to compile kernel on gentoo. How do I choose kernel configuration. Gentoo Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml says: Device Drivers ---> Networking Support ---> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ---> …
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