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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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Minimizing emerge impact on a low-mem/high load system?

Any best practices on minimizing system performance impact during emerging?
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Gentoo emerge from a list with USE flags and specific version

I've got a list of packages from a Gentoo server, like that: [...snip...] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13 -X -aalib -alsa -arts -custom-cflags -dga -directfb -esd -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -noaudio -nojoystick -novideo -opengl -oss -pulseaudio -svga…
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xen-sources, different versions different problems

I'm trying to get my xen-sources compiled and I'm having mixed results depending on which version I use. So far I haven't got any of the currently available (as of a week or so ago) xen-sources working through gentoo's portage. When I try to make…
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PHP only loads extension if apc.so is located in my www folder

This is pretty strange situation I am getting. I have installed apc (with ./configure and make) on my LAMP gentoo with PHP 5.2. To get apc loaded i need to place apc.so in my www php directory otherwise it just don't get loaded. I don't even any…
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Vsftpd crashes if I add anon_root directive

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Does XenServer 5.6's pygrub require initrd?

I'm trying to run Gentoo paravirtualized under XenServer 5.6. Now, Gentoo is perfectly capable of booting without initrd, so my question is: Do I need an initrd for pygrub to work? Earlier attempts without initrd had resulted in errors, which…
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apxs error: gcc: no suchf file or directory

i am trying to install mod_xsendfile to my gentoo server. I did: cd /usr/local/apache/bin ./apxs -cia /mod_xsendfile.c and doenst' work. it says: gcc: /mod_sendfile.c: No such file or directory but the file is there!
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Gentoo box can't cURL or ping after restarting net.eth1

the following is completely baffling me. We currently have a gentoo box which acts as our LAMP, DNS, DHCP server. This is assigned a static IP on the network. This server is connected directly to the internet via a BT BusinessHub Router. The server…
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Poor iptables network forwarding performance

This is my firewall script: WAN_NIC="ppp0" LAN_NIC="eth1" DYN_ADDR="yes" iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t nat -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING…
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Specify outgoing address for cron messages with postfix

I have a server with Gentoo and Postfix. Postfix is configured so that all e-mail messages are routed through an external relay which requires a particular address in 'From'. From /etc/postfix/main.cf: relayhost = relay.example.com I also have a…
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Installing mod_proxy for apache on Gentoo

I just switched over to working with a gentoo server, and am having problems installing apache with mod_proxy. I've gone over many of the documents for using the USE command but haven't figured out how to recompile Apache with mod_proxy support. To…
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Prevent emerge from downgrading packages

I have a lot of packages (>10) installed with ~amd64 keyword and I want to keep my base system stable. But emerge -uD world will downgrade all unstable package. I want solution for emerging only upgrades not masking old versions every time. There…
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Gentoo and GPT Grub support

Grub seems to support GPT, or so it says, there is a patch for it, however when i try to boot after installing grub into the active boot partition (ext2) it starts to boot and before grub loads any stage 1.5 stuff it dies and hangs, got 1 big raid…
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PPTP-Gateway routes icmp but no http

got a very strange behaviour with a Gentoo-based PPTP-Gateway here. I configured the VPN and the default routes - from the Gateway itself, the connections out to the VPN work great. But from the Clients, connected to the Router, I just can do pings…
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MySQL has stopped accepting connections from other users than root

I'm running a mysql-server a long with apache and tomcat on a Gentoo box. To administer mysql I'm using phpMyAdmin. A couple of hours ago I received a call -- a user was unable to login to phpmyadmin. I logged on to phpmyadmin with the root user,…
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