Category Archives: Gentoo

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml)

Booting Gentoo from USB Hard Disk

Posted on August 19, 2007 by admin

I installed my Gentoo on my internal hard disk. Due to mobility I think about moving my system to a portable USB hard disk. The first idea was to use an initial ram disk image to load the USB drivers … Continue reading →

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Burning CD/DVD using the Shell

Posted on May 19, 2007 by admin

It’s not very difficult to write CD/DVD’s from the linux shell. Here’s is a short summary how to burn CD/DVD’s using mkisofs and cdrecord. First of all, you have to create an ISO image, which you can write onto CD/DVD. … Continue reading →

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Gentoo, Gnome & Vmware Trouble

Posted on March 28, 2007 by admin

After another world-update (Vmware Workstation 5.5.3 build-34685, D-Bus Message Bus Daemon 1.0.2) I got the following errors when I try to start vmware:   workstation1@ws1 /usr/local/bin $ /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) process 1777: Attempt … Continue reading →

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