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Welcome to gr0x0rd's Gentoo Linux wiki.
This living document is intended to be used as a resource for myself and any other sysadmins or end users aspiring to use Gentoo Linux.
Perspective
Choose from the index below.
Installing Gentoo
- Before you begin
- Configure Networking
- Partitioning
- Apply Filesystems
- Mount Partitions
- Download a Stage Tarball
- chroot into the New Environment
- Configure System Settings
- Configure make.conf
- Emerge System Utilities
- Configure System Services
- Configure the Kernel
- Configure fstab
- Configure bootloader
- Reboot system
Troubleshooting
Configuring your System
- Creating Users
- Setting up sudo
- Using portage
- Configure udev
- Configure X
- Configure Display Manager
- Configure Login Manager
- Compositing
- Customizing your Desktop
- Mount network shares
- Remote display connections
Configuring Hardware
- Configuring Sound
- Configuring Wireless
- Configuring Webcam
- Configuring Printers
- Hardware Sensors
- CPU Frequency scaling
- System Monitor
- Suspend and Hibernate
- Power Management
- Special Buttons
Configuring Software
- browser with adblock and flash
- multimedia, codecs and video players
- mp3 player
- office productivity suite
- pdf reader
- email client
- instant messenger
- torrent manager
- ftp client
- cd/dvd/image burner
- dvd ripper
- compression utilities
- java
- antivirus
- image viewer and editor
- vpn connections
Server Settings
- Software Firewall
- Automatically ban attackers
- Create network shares
- Scheduled tasks
- mySQL
- apache
- php
- apache mySQL authentication
- Ftp server
- logrotate
Development
Virtualization
How Do I...
- Manage services and issue commands during startup?
- Easily copy files between two Linux machines?
- Mount and iso image from my filesystem as a cd or dvd?
- Create an iso from a cd or dvd?
- Open sopcast streams in smplayer or vlc?
- Upgrade to a new kernel?
- Search for files or folders?
- Set up a development environment for Android phones?