Category Archives: Gentoo
Linux Sea sources online, cvechecker still in development
First of all, I’ve put the sources for Linux Sea online at GitHub. Not only does that safeguard any latest changes from not hitting my backup in time before my laptop dies (it’s terminal, but I can’t let him go … Continue reading
Listing files of (not) installed software
Everyone that has been using Gentoo for a while now knows about tools such as qlist that show you the list of files installed by an (installed) package, or qfile that allows you to find which package provided a particular … Continue reading
Question yourself v3
Another update to Quizzer, now at version 3. But more importantly, updates to the Linux Sea related chapters are made available online – get a taste for it at the online quizzer set. Feedback is, as always, very much appreciated.
Question yourself v2
A new version of the Quizzer webscript is available. The demo has also been updated with quick tests on the first few chapters of Linux Sea. More exercises on the following chapters will follow soon. Updates to the script include … Continue reading
Question yourself
Do you ever write down things in the hope you never forget them, but still think it would be better if you could somehow take a test of that subject from time to time to make sure you don’t forget? … Continue reading
A dozen pages added
Just a quick heads-up that a dozen pages in the Linux Sea book have been added. Nothing spectacular, just a few more paragraphs on services/runlevels, a few updates on software management and on boot failure resolutions.
License support in Gentoo
It’s a bit sad that Gentoo didn’t promote this more, but Gentoo users now have support for license-based masking. What does this mean? Well, previously, Gentoo already supported various masking reasons (like stable versus staging – the x86 versus ~x86 … Continue reading
Small updates on Linux Sea
A few updates have made it to the Linux Sea book: Information regarding ndiswrapper Some information about udev and the symlinks that it creates The PDF version has been updated as well.
Added quota information
I’ve added quota support information to the Linux Sea book as well as information about the eclean command for cleaning distfiles and packages. The part on building a Linux kernel has been moved into its own chapter, the chapter on … Continue reading
Draft PDF for Linux Sea
I’ve added a draft PDF version of my Linux Sea document. If you don’t mind the A4 papersize and the bad typesetting of the text boxes (I still have lots of overflows to correct) it is quite usable.