Listing files of (not) installed software
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 05 June 2010Everyone 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 file on your system.
One thing lacking is to be …
License support in Gentoo
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 16 February 2010It'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 saga, package.mask'ing - for security reasons or critical bugs, ...). Now, a …
Added quota information
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 01 September 2009I'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 hardware support now has a bit more information about dealing …
Draft PDF for Linux Sea
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 10 August 2009I'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.
Linux Sea is progressing slowly but surely
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 10 February 2009My everlasting document, Linux Sea, is progressing slowely but surely. I've started a few new chapters and also initiated a chapter on Installing Gentoo (which is more a shortlist of tasks with pointers to earlier chapters).
I also took a different CSS (docbook.css file used by the FreeBSD handbook …
Adding exercises and resources
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 15 September 2008As stated earlier, I'm now focusing on the existing content of my (work-in-progress) ebook called Linux Sea (PDF, HTML). I'm going to add more text where appropriate, add exercises to each chapter as well as references to online resources.
When that's finished, I'll probably be writing a chapter on installing …
Linux Sea - Updates on graphical environment chapter
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 21 August 2008I've updated the chapter on graphical environments a bit to reflect how applications, window managers, X server and widget toolkits work together. Hopefully it isn't a big lie that I wrote there ;-)
I'll probably be doing a bit of clean ups the coming days before I start out with more …