Tag Archives: Gentoo

Favorite Distribution

Posted on July 10, 2005 by Jason Mock

This weekend, <sarcasm> since I had SO many things to get done </sarcasm>, I went through a reload of my laptop due to an attack of a “I’m tired of constantly compiling” feeling that occasionally comes with running Gentoo Linux. … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Linux on a IBM R50 [18363SU]

Posted on January 20, 2005 by Jason Mock

Here’s a collection of all the things I had to configure to run Gentoo Linux onto my IBM R50 (Model 1836-3SU).

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Gentoo: XVnc Server + PAM = Broken

Posted on November 23, 2004 by Jason Mock

For some time I’ve been making use of the wonderful Xvnc Terminal Server Howto created by LinuxReviews.org.   Unfortunately it appears as if the most recent update to pam from the gentoo portage has created an authentication issue.   I’m … Continue reading →

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Circular Dependency in Gentoo Portage Tree

Posted on November 3, 2004 by Jason Mock

This one was definitely interesting.  I have both openldap and sasl support enabled via my ‘use flags’.   This resulted in the emerging of OpenLDAP and Cyrus-SASL.  OpenLDAP would fail to build because it couldn’t locate Cyrus-SASL, and Cyrus-SASL’s e-build reports OpenLDAP … Continue reading →

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Emerge Errors with mit-krb5 and cups

Posted on October 8, 2004 by Jason Mock

Both mit-krb5 and cups have reported an error in Gentoo stating that they require autoconf > 2.50.   After looking, it does appear that this is an actual bug in the portage tree.  Other forums pieces point to the fact … Continue reading →

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New Gentoo Build

Posted on October 8, 2004 by Jason Mock

Today I decided that because I’d been away for so long, and it’d been so long since my last update, that I’d start over on my Gentoo install.  One big change I’m implementing this time around is a slightly reorganized partition structure: … Continue reading →

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gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8

Posted on August 16, 2004 by Jason Mock

Time for your daily dose of bug ridden software.  Unfortunately I, and many others, have found the newest gentoo dev sources release of the 2.6 kernel to be quite buggy.   Some of the issues mentioned range from bootsplash not … Continue reading →

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Gentoo 2004.2

Posted on August 13, 2004 by Jason Mock

This past week I have been dealing with the fun task of creating what I call “desktop stages” for my Gentoo installs.  Simply put I’m taking the concept of the stage tarballs provided by Gentoo a step further with a … Continue reading →

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New Linux Screenshot

Posted on July 7, 2004 by Jason Mock

Posted another new screenshot of my Linux Desktop.  This shot is from my Acer Travelmate 630 running Gentoo 2004.1 (2.6.7 Kernel, GCC 3.4.1) along with KDE 3.2.3.  KDE is configured to use the Nuvola IconSet and Galaxy 2 Desktop Theme … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Dev Sources 2.6.7-r6 + iptables

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Jason Mock

Some Gentoo user’s may already know about this, but I’ve been unable to build iptables on two separate laptops running Gentoo Dev Sources 2.6.7-r6.  What I found to be particularly frustrating and of concern is the fact that the emerge appeared to … Continue reading →

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