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[edit] Installation Methods
- Gentoo Handbook - The Official Guide
- Gentoo Power Setup - The power user's "todo-list" for installing a barebone Gentoo system
- HOWTO LiveUSB Key from 2008 minimal, LiveCD or LiveDVD.
- HOWTO LiveUSB from the LiveCD or LiveDVD.
- HOWTO Install Gentoo From Floppy Without A CD-ROM Drive
- Diskless Install
- HOWTO Install Gentoo Quick Reference
- Installation of most recent Gentoo release
- Install Gentoo on VMware
- Install Gentoo using NPTL & 2.6 from Stage 1
- Install Gentoo with a glibc 2.3.2 from Stage 1
- Install Gentoo with Reiser4
- Install Gentoo without a LiveCD
- Small Footprint Gentoo on USB
- Install Gentoo on FitPC
- HOWTO Compile on another computer
- HOWTO Convert A RedHat Server to Gentoo Remotely
- HOWTO Newbie Guide to Stage1 NPTL Install
- HOWTO Networkless stage 1 Install
- Linode Installation
- HOWTO Install gentoo from an Atheros (MadWifi) card
- HOWTO SSHD enabled Installation CD
- Install Gentoo with CD Floppy Emulation
- Reinstall Gentoo keeping your old configuration
- HOWTO Install Gentoo from USB stick using GRUB
- HOWTO Install Gentoo or another Linux distro from USB flash drive using syslinux
- HOWTO Install to a file on a FAT and boot with loadlin
- HOWTO Modify and resize partitions on a remote machine
[edit] Booting / Multiboot (Windows, MacOSX, ...)
- Setting up Initramfs
- Install Linux after Windows
- Install Windows After Gentoo
- Using Windows Bootloader (NTLDR) to boot Gentoo
- Setup a Dual Boot System
- Setup a Multi Boot System
- MacOSX Dual boot
- HOWTO Configure a dual boot windows linux to be able to open each os in vmware
- HOWTO Boot From SAN
- HOWTO Alternative boot methods
[edit] LiveCDs
- HOWTO create a custom distro (in less than three hours)
- Build your own LiveCD
- HOWTO build a LiveCD with Catalyst for newbies
- Build your own LiveCD from scratch
- Gentoo LiveCD & LiveUSB
- Lightning fast install from LiveCD
- Gentoo 2004.2, NPTL & Kernel 2.6
- LiveCD on disk
- AutoLiveCD
[edit] Architectures / Platforms
[edit] Computers
- Soekris Net4801 how-to
- Soekris Net5501 Howto
- AMD 64
- Gentoo on an Apple iMac-intel
- HOWTO Install Gentoo on a G5
- Install Gentoo on an SGI 320 Visual Workstation
- Gentoo on laptops
- MacPro Desktops
[edit] Gentoo on gaming consoles (not mobile consoles)
[edit] Portage on other Operating Systems
- Install Gentoo on Mac OS X
- Install Gentoo on Windows (Interix (native posix), Cygwin, UWIN, CoLinux…)
- Install Gentoo on Cygwin
- Install Gentoo on CoLinux
- Install Gentoo on BSD (freebsd, netbsd, openbsd) or GENTOO-BSD
- Install Gentoo/FreeBSD
- Install Gentoo on any Linux (fixed chroot install)
[edit] Embedded
- General presentation of all the howto related to gentoo embedded
- Embedded Gentoo
- Embedded x86 Gentoo (live CD with NTFS write support)
[edit] RAID / LVM
- Software RAID
- Other RAID
- LVM
[edit] Kernel & Hardware
[edit] General
- Linux Kernel - Covering a broad range of topics.
- Kernel Sources
- Detecting your Hardware
- Customizing UDEV
- Error Messages
- Migrate to NPTL
- Migrate to UDEV
- Remote Kernel Upgrade
- Quick GRUB
- Intel Xeon (EM64T)
- Notes on open source and closed source states of AMD 64 drivers
- HOWTO iscsi
- prevent udev from loading certain modules
- HOWTO Rescue chroot - Get a shell to rescue your system after a fatal grub/kernel injury
- Dell BIOS Upgrade
- Use HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
[edit] ACPI & APM
- ACPI
- ACPI/Fix common problems
- Power Management
- CPU Frequency Scaling
- AMD PowerNow!
- HOWTO Shutdown headless server when power-button pressed
- Userspace Software Suspend
- TuxOnIce (formerly Software Suspend v2)
- APM
- APM/Suspend
- Undervolt a Pentium M CPU
[edit] Graphics
- ATI drivers
- ATI Open-Source Drivers
- ATI on amd64
- getting Asus X850XT working with the official ATI Drivers
- NVIDIA drivers
- Intel GMA drivers
- Intel Onboard Graphics Notebooks Native Resolution
- TV-Out
- Fbsplash Boot Splash Screen
- Fbsplash/Themes Create Fbsplash Themes
- GRUB/Splash Grub Splash Screen
- Setup xdirectfb
- Linux Logo Hack
[edit] Hard Disk
- hdparm Change harddisk parameters
- Filesystem support
- hddtemp Check your harddisk temperature
- smartmontools Check you harddisk fitness
- Move Gentoo Installation to new hard disk
- Spin down hard disks of a small (embedded) server
- HOWTO Recovering a Deleted Partition Table
[edit] Peripherals
- LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)
- USB-UIRT for LIRC
- How to setup a webcam
- How to let your touchpad/usb to have a default symlink
- Install and setup a fingerprint reader
- HOWTO Use Multimedia Keys
- Elo Touchscreen
[edit] Printers
- TurboPrint
- HOWTO use the scanner and printer Samsung SCX4200
- D-Link DP-100 HW Printerserver and others & CUPS
- Samba/CUPS network print server with Samsung ML-1710
- Native Windows Printing with CUPS/Samba
- Konica Minolta printers with CUPS and FOOMATIC
- HOWTO EPSON CX3650 & DX3850 : scanner and printer configuration
- Printing on Canon LBP 2900 connected to Windows XP using CUPS
- HOWTO Canon LBP 2900 using proprietary Canon drivers
- CUPS Server+Window Client W/O SAMBA
- Linux printer sharing with CUPS
- HOWTO EPSON Stylus C80 Driver Installation
- HOWTO Brother Printer/Scanners
- Brother MFC 420CN
- HOWTO Create and Print to a Virtual PDF Printer
- Canon Pixma Series
- HOWTO Konica Copiers (i.e 7020,7030,etc)
- HOWTO Samsung CLP-510 Driver Installation
- HOWTO HP OfficeJet 6310 : scanner and printer configuration
- HOWTO HP Photosmart 5180
- HOWTO Samsung ML-2510 driver with CUPS
- HOWTO Canon LBP 5000 using proprietary Canon drivers
- HOWTO Canon Pixma ip4500 using Canon 32bit drivers on AMD64
- HOWTO HP LaserJet P1006
[edit] Scanners
- Installing USB Scanner
- HOWTO EPSON CX3650 & DX3850 : scanner and printer configuration
- HOWTO HP OfficeJet 6310 : scanner and printer configuration
[edit] Sound
- HOWTO Compile Kernel with ALSA
- ALSA/Install
- HOWTO Softvol - Set up a software volume control for sound cards lacking volume controls
- HOWTO Set up a system-wide equaliser with ALSA and LADSPA
- Install and configure JACK
- Open Sound System
- HOWTO oss2jack - Let OSS applications use the jack sound server
- Install Sound Blaster Live 24-bit External (USB)
- Let Your Gentoo Speak with Speechd
- Configure a Surround Sound Setup
- Configure nForce2 hw mixing (nvsound + alsa)
- Virtual PC Speaker
- Configure Logitech's V10 Notebook Speakers
- Pulseaudio
- HOWTO install OSSv4
- HOWTO music studio
[edit] UPS
- UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
- Apcupsd
- Energizer UPS
- Liebert PowerSure Personal XT
- NUT
[edit] USB
- Bluetooth Syncing with Palm or PocketPC
- Configure Gentoo as a BlackDog host
- GPS / Microsoft GPS-360
- Griffin PowerMate with UDEV & Kernel 2.6
- Installing USB Scanner
- USB Mass Storage
- USB Sync Using Evolution & UDEV
- USB LIRC streamZap
- Install a digital camera with UDEV
- Get your Orinoco USB device working
- Setting up a Wacom Tablet
- Setting up an Aiptek Tablet
- Using an iRiver with Gentoo
- HOWTO Xbox 360 controller on Linux
- Logitech Precision Gamepad
- HOWTO Delorme EarthMate GPS LT-20
[edit] Virtualization
- Category: Virtualization - Virtualization related articles
- Category: VMware - VMware related articles.
- Xen and Gentoo
- Virtual Xen Servers and Gentoo
- Clone a Xen VM with LVM
- KVM
- Qemu
- Qemu with gcc 4
- OpenVZ
- Gentoo and VMware Workstation
- VirtualBox
- VirtualBox-bin
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Acovea Getting the most out of your processor
- Big Brother -- Watch the Big Brother 9 feeds.
- Set up a Car Computer
- Gentoo Light install -- Burn those gigabytes using help of a second Gentoo installation
- Remove PAM
- Apple iPod
- Apple iPod shuffle
- Using Unicode and UTF-8
- PDA-PIM - Gentoo's PDA/PIM Guide
- Guide to understanding regular expressions
- HOWTO Fix Grub it can't find a kernel
- HOWTO PDA
- HOWTO PSP
- HOWTO Transfer Photos from a Game Boy Camera
- HOWTO Send emails with shell scripts
- HOWTO Synchronize time: simple and lightweight solutions - Synchronize system time via HTTP (and a proxy) or NTP
- HOWTO Sync your system-clock via internet (without NTP)
- Motd Message of the day
- HOWTO run only free software very useful for non x86 architectures
- HOWTO run Proprietary software you don't trust proprietary software do you?
- File Compression -- How to compress and decompress files
- Computers system monitoring Monitoring physical, systems and network parameters, use rrdtool and apache.
- Portable USB Gentoo
[edit] Build a Gentoo High Performance Cluster
- HOWTO Configure Gentoo Linux for Clustering
- HOWTO MPI Programming
- HOWTO Torque/Maui - grid scheduler and resource manager
[edit] Learning and Teaching Gentoo
[edit] Networks & Services
[edit] General
- HOWTO IP Aliasing
- HOWTO IPv6
- HOWTO ISDN
- HOWTO ISDN Alt
- HOWTO MISDN
- HOWTO Parallel Port Network
- HOWTO Packet Shaping & QoS Bandwidth Management
- HOWTO Accessfs - ports <1024 for non-root
- HOWTO Xilinx
- HOWTO Zabbix
- HOWTO Cisco device logging
- HOWTO Add a gentoo server to a windows network
- HOWTO quick routing
- HOWTO TCP Tuning
- HOWTO Own Free domain
[edit] Apache Related
See: Apache2
- HOWTO Install Apache2
- HOWTO Apache Ant and Jakarta Tomcat
- HOWTO Apache with Coldfusion MX7
- HOWTO Apache2 and Drupal
- HOWTO Apache2 and MAMBO
- HOWTO Apache2 with PHP MySQL
- HOWTO Apache2 with perl
- HOWTO Apache2 and Tomcat5
- HOWTO Apache 2 bandwidth limiting
- HOWTO Apache2 and mod ftpd
- HOWTO PAM authentication with Apache 2.2 and mod_authnz_external
- HOWTO Apache2 and mod auth ldap
- HOWTO Apache2 with WordPress
- HOWTO Apache2 with BASE
- HOWTO cacert.org SSL certificates
- Mailman
- HOWTO PHP5 and PHP6 Simultaneously
- HOWTO PHP-Java Bridge
- HOWTO php.ini overrides w/ .htaccess
- Streamlining your web server
- Apache chroot: the mod security way
- HOWTO Apache VirtualHost by IP Address
- HOWTO SSL Enabled, Name Based Virtual Hosts with Apache
- Netegrity install
[edit] Bluetooth
- Mobile Phone/Bluetooth
- HOWTO Host to Host Bluetooth
- HOWTO Configure a bluetooth network access point
- Mobile Phone/UMTS
- HOWTO Access the Interweb using a moblie phone and Bluetooth
- Bluetooth headset
- Bluetooth mouse
- Bluetooth keyboard
- Bluetooth GPS
- HOWTO Configure a Wiimote as an Electronic Whiteboard
[edit] Content Management Systems
- HOWTO Dragonfly CMS (Content Management System)
- HOWTO Plone
- HOWTO Alfresco
- HOWTO Maintain a Gentoo web server running Joomla
[edit] DNS
- BIND
- BIND with DLZ, MySQL and replication
- DJBDNS
- Dynamic DNS
- Dynamic DNS with an updating daemon
- EveryDNS
[edit] Database Management Systems
- HOWTO Configure PostgreSQL
- HOWTO MySQL
- HOWTO Backup MySQL
- HOWTO Samba with Mysql
- HOWTO Setup mysql virtual hosting
- HOWTO Connect to iSeries AS/400 DB with PHP & DB2 Connect PE
- HOWTO Password reset procedure (for MySQL)
[edit] Diskless
- HOWTO Diskless X terminal with read-only root
- HOWTO network boot without write access on server
- HOWTO diskless in a heterogeneous environment (Network with many different kinds of hardware)
- HOWTO Diskless: Unionfs. Why not?
[edit] FTP
- ProFTPD
- PureFTPD using MySQL Auth & PhpMyAdmin
- PureFTPD using MySQL authentication and Usermanager
- vsftpd
- ProFTPD with TLS/SSL
- Corporate FTP Server with ProFTPD
[edit] High Availability and Failover
- HOWTO Setup IP failover with UCARP
- HOWTO Setup Bonded ethernet adapters
- HOWTO Setup 2 Node Active Passive Cluster With DRBD UCARP
[edit] Instant Messaging
- Ejabberd
- Jabberd2 - Set up a jabberd2 server with transports
- Wildfire with LDAP - a full featured Jabber server
- talkd - Terminal based multi-user talk client
[edit] IRC
[edit] IrDA
[edit] LAN
- HOWTO Print WinServer
- HOWTO Setup a Home Server
- HOWTO Use a D-Link Print Server
- HOWTO Serving Mac
- Setup a Bridge
- HOWTO setup a transparent caching bridge
- HOWTO setup a corporate Gentoo server
- HOWTO setup a File Server
- HOWTO The Home Network for Beginners
- HOWTO squid/squidGuard
- Control your computers over a LAN using Synergy
- HOWTO add a static route
- HOWTO static ip with dhcp router
- HOWTO Network profiles with arping
- Dansguardian - Web filter
- HOWTO Fix network device
[edit] Network Filesystems
- Active Directory
- HOWTO Active Directory with Samba and Winbind
- HOWTO Share Directories Using AFP
- HOWTO Share Directories Using NFS
- HOWTO Share Directories Using SHFS
- HOWTO Adding a SAMBA Server Into an Existing AD Domain
- HOWTO Implement Samba as your PDC
- HOWTO setup Samba for client and server use.
- HOWTO NFSv4
- HOWTO iFolder
- HOWTO Setup ata over ethernet
- HOWTO Setup a LDAP based Samba PDC
- HOWTO Mount a WebDAV share as a filesystem
- HOWTO Access an NFS share from Windows using SFU
- HOWTO Access your JungleDisk
[edit] Mail Servers
- Kerio Mail Server
- Courier IMAP with SSL
- Small email server using Postfix (with POP3 and TLS support)
- Qmail Rocks Gentoo Style - Install Qmail on Gentoo without MySQL (QmailRocks semi-based)
- Qmail Relay Control with Vpopmail
- Virtual Mail Server with Postfix and Courier
- Setup Qmail, Vpopmail and Other Mail Servers
- Spam Filtering using Postfix and Amavis
- Spam Filtering with Postfix and DSpam
- Spam Filtering with Qmail and Spamdyke
- Virtual Mail Server using Postfix with SpamAssassin and Roundcube
- Virtual Mail Server using Postfix and Courier with LDAP
- Fetch from multiple accounts and export to mail clients
- Mail Server using Courier with maildrop, ClamAV and SpamAssassin
- Complete Virtual Mail Server
- Email Filtering with mimedefrag
- Email System for the Home Network (Part 1)
- Email System for the Home Network (Part 2)
- Virtual Mail Server using Courier
- Virtual Mail Server using maildrop and SpamAssassin
- Email Virus Scanning using MPP
- Email Virus Scanning using MailScanner
- Maildrop
[edit] Modems
- HOWTO Install a modem that uses the eagle-usb software
- HOWTO Speedtouch modem
- HOWTO Alcatel Speedtouch modem
- HOWTO slmodem
- HOWTO Huawei E630 HSDPA Data card
[edit] Music / Broadcasting Servers
- Apple iTunes Server
- Icecast OGG & MP3 Streaming
- MediaTomb UPnP Media Server
- Salem Radio Labs Rivendell Streaming Radio
[edit] P2P
- HOWTO giFT p2p
- HOWTO Setup A Bittorrent Tracker
- Qsubmit (for MLdonkey)
- Rtorrent with xmlrpc on lighttpd
- Azureus
[edit] PPP
- Setup a Dialup Connection
- HOWTO Connect Using PPP & Sprint PCS
- HOWTO Connect using PPP Blutooth and EVDO
- HOWTO PPPoA ADSL with a Conexant Accessrunner PCI modem
- HOWTO PPP Tunneling & Kernel 2.6
- HOWTO PPTP VPN client (Microsoft-compatible with mppe)
- HOWTO PPTP Internet
- HOWTO TiVo PPP Gateway
- HOWTO Connect using PPPoE
- HOWTO Connect using Sprint PCS Merlin S620 EVDO
[edit] Remote Access Services
- HOWTO telnetd Installation of a telnet server daemon
- HOWTO sshd Installation of a secure shell server daemon
[edit] RFID
[edit] Routing
[edit] Security & Anonymity
[edit] Anonymizing Services
[edit] Firewalls and Port Related Articles
- Iptables for Beginners - The linux firewall system.
- HOWTO autossh and knockd
- HOWTO Port Knocking
[edit] Intrusion Detection
[edit] Securing SSH
- BlockHosts for protecting SSHD (and other services).
- HOWTO Protect SSHD with DenyHosts
- HOWTO Protect SSHD with Swatch
- fail2ban for protecting SSHD (and other services) from bruteforce attacks.
- sshdfilter for protecting SSHD (and other services) from bruteforce attacks.
- SSH without a password
[edit] SELinux
[edit] VPN
- HOWTO StrongSwan VPN using FreeRadius & Active Directory
- HOWTO Shorewall Firewall IPsec VPN and 2.6 kernel
- HOWTO OpenSwan 2.6 kernel
- HOWTO OpenVPN RoadWarrior
- HOWTO OpenVPN primer
- HOWTO Setup a VPN with tinc
- HOWTO VPN over SSH and tun
- HOWTO Juniper SSL Network Connect VPN
- HOWTO OpenVPN Linux Server Windows Client
- HOWTO OpenVPN Server for Ethernet Bridging with Server Certificates
[edit] Other Articles
- Aircrack WEP
- Certificate Authority - Creating your own CA with either GNU TLS or OpenSSL.
- dnsmasq in a chroot jail
- DoD CAC
- Freeradius
- IPsec
- Moblock
- Nocat
- Running Firefox as another user
- HOWTO Setup PHP-Syslog-NG
- Skeys
- Snoop terminal sessions
[edit] Wireless LAN
- Wireless/Configuration
- Wireless/Access point
- Wireless/libnl Access Point
- Wireless/Managers
- HOWTO NetworkManager
- HOWTO Chillispot with FreeRadius and MySQL
- HOWTO WPA Enterprise (WPA/RADIUS) with MySQL
- HOWTO Wireless Configuration for Hogeschool Zeeland
- HOWTO Wireless Configuration for TUDelft WLAN (WPA, EAP-TTLS)
- HOWTO Wireless Configuration for TUE
[edit] Other Services
- Access ISA Proxy
- Ajaxterm - A web based terminal.
- Asterisk: Send faxes via email with email2fax
- BOINC
- Business oriented services - Install services for a company in order to have good tools for working (such as ooo,wayback-filesystem...)
- Centreon 2
- Confixx3
- cron
- CVS Server
- Darwin Streaming Server
- DHCP
- DHCPCD Timeouts
- DistCC Server on Microsoft Windows
- Download Cache for LAN-HTTP-Replicator
- DrQueue
- FAX Server
- Halflife Dedicated Server (Counterstrike)
- Hula Mailserver
- INND
- JVM Monitoring with SNMP
- LDAP auth and Sudo
- LDAP/PAM Basics - Simple, well-structured tutorial.
- Lighttpd
- Linux Virtual Server
- Mounting SFTP and FTP shares
- MRTG with Linksys Routers
- MRTG with a D-Link Switch without SNMP
- Nagios
- NIS
- NTP
- NTP Using OpenNTPD
- Openbravo ERP
- OpenLDAP
- OpenGroupware with OpenLDAP
- OsCommerce
- OS-SIM - Open Source Security Information Management
- PHP 5 with PEAR
- Rancid - Configuration Archival
- Road Warriors with OpenVPN
- RoundCube - Web based mail.
- Rsync local mirror
- SFTP Server
- SNMP & MRTG Made Easy
- Subversion
- Sybase ASE 12.5.2
- Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent
- HOWTO Legacy Veritas Backup Exec Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Veritas Backup Exec Remote Agent - NON RALUS LICENSE
- SysCP
- TWiki
- UnrealIRCD
- UPnP with IPTables
- Use SNORT, ACID & MySQL Effectively
- VerliHub
- VNC Tunnel over SSH
- yaa
[edit] Portage
See Also: Portage Tips
- Advanced Emerge World
- HOWTO Doing a huge emerge system - emerge world
- HOWTO change CHOST relatively safely
- HOWTO Create an Updated Ebuild
- HOWTO Create A Build Host
- HOWTO Distcc over SSH with Portage
- HOWTO Emerge on very slow systems
- HOWTO etc-update
- HOWTO etc-proposals
- Portage Overlay Listing
- HOWTO ICC and Portage
- HOWTO Installing 3rd Party Ebuilds
- HOWTO Reduce Downloading Time with Deltup
- HOWTO Resume a deltup download
- HOWTO Maintain Gentoo - "Best Practices"
- HOWTO pkgcore quickstart guide
- HOWTO Portage Fetch With Download Accelerator
- HOWTO Setup local Portage and Package Mirror
- HOWTO Use dijjer for portage
- HOWTO Use Portage alternative - Paludis
- HOWTO Use Portage Correctly
- HOWTO Using a Shared Portage Via NFS
- HOWTO VERY small Portage Tree with SquashFS and UnionFS
- HOWTO Write Ebuilds
[edit] Software
[edit] Audio
- Asterisk PBX system
- HOWTO Convert from iTunes - How to move your iTunes library to Linux, and unprotect it.
- HOWTO Play M4P Audio Files - Play m4p/m4a audio files
- HOWTO Sibelius 4
- Rip Audio CDs
- HOWTO Largefile Sound Recording and Cutting
- HOWTO From Winamp to XMMS
- XMMS2
- HOWTO ALSA and TeamSpeak on amd64
- MPD Music Player Daemon
- Linuxsampler
[edit] Compiling
- HOWTO Compile Kernel With Distcc and CCache
- HOWTO Compile Windows binaries on Linux
- HOWTO Cross Compile
- HOWTO MinGW
- HOWTO MinGW and Qt4
- HOWTO MinGW and SDL CrossCompiling
- HOWTO PSP Development
- HOWTO Setup An ICECREAM Compile Cluster
[edit] Desktop
- Avant Window Navigator
- Avira AntiVir
- AVG Anti-Virus
- Beagle
- DjVu
- Editing FreeDesktop Menus e.g. KDE-Menu, Gnome-Menu, so called "Root-menu"...
- Evidence Enlightened File Manager
- Evolution - Synchronizing with Pocket PC
- F-Spot Photo Management
- Firescape
- Firefox & Flash 9
- GNUstep
- iFolder client v2 - version 2 (Prop)
- iFolder client v3 - version 3 (OSS)
- Java & Firefox
- Leafpad
- Lightweight package selection (using Xfce and suitable for office usage)
- Looking Glass
- Migrate from Thunderbird on Windows to Linux with Enigmail
- Open mailto: links in gmail
- Remove Gnome
- Screencasting with vnc2swf
- Skin the Lock/Unlock Dialog in Xscreensaver
- Skype
- Windows equivalent programs
[edit] Multimedia
- HOWTO D-BUS, HAL, KDE media:/
- NSV Decoding
- HOWTO DVD-Ripping
- HOWTO DVD to VCD
- HOWTO Use MythTV
- RealPlayer 10 Gold
- HOWTO Install Lsongs
- VLC
- MPlayer
- MPlayer/Usage
- MPlayer/Framebuffer
- MPlayer/Rip streams
- MPlayer/LIRC
- MPlayer/Movie thumbnail preview
- MPlayer/TiVo USE Flag
- Mplayerplug-in
- MEncoder
- Rip a DVD to MPEG-4 using MEncoder
- HOWTO Dolby Digital and DTS
- HOWTO Optimize Multimedia Support
- HOWTO AlienBBC on Slimserver
- Howto cut dvb and other movies
- VDR Video Disk Recorder
- Freevo Media Center
- TiVo Digital Video Recorder
- XBMC Xbox Media Center
- Elisa Media Center
[edit] Server
- HOWTO Open-Xchange
- HOWTO User Mode Linux
- HOWTO Watchdog Timer
- HOWTO GLFTPD
- HOWTO Use Vim effectively
- HOWTO Install Bugzilla Using Bugzilla for fun and profit.
- HOWTO Trac
- HOWTO Trac with Apache2 SVN and multiple Repositories
- HOWTO Install VMWare Server
- HOWTO OpenID Mediawiki extension
- HOWTO Install Fedora Directory Server
- HOWTO Install wii Media Server X
[edit] Web-based Applications
- Coppermine - Image gallery.
- Installing the W3C Validator
[edit] Other
- Convert LaTeX to HTML with MathML
- Convert Microsoft LIT to Palm DOC (pdb)
- TeX - Get started with (La)TeX and basic TeX TeXnics
- Anjuta 2
- Panorama photography tools
- Raw camera images
- Transfer mbox to gmail
- Open source alternatives Open source alternative to closed source drivers,programs,firmware..., useful for non x86 architectures
- GnuPG
- Open for Business
- Gazebo/Player/Stage
- Freepops
- Catalyst Framework - the elegant Perl MVC web framework
- RHIDE - A text-based Integrated Development IDE
- Migrate to Gmail
- Oracle Developer Suite 10g
- Autodesk Maya 8.5
- Chinese Mandarin Tools DimSum
- Eric4 Snapshot
- Cruise control - A Java based automated build system.
- Netbeans and Tomcat
- Commercial Electronic Design Automation Tools (FPGA/ASIC)
- Sun Studio 12
- FileZilla
- Sympa
- OpenMeetings
- Mobile Phone Synchronization
- Nokia N-series Synchronization
[edit] System Related
[edit] General
- HOWTO Manage services and runlevels via a modern GUI
- HOWTO Create a Run Level
- DOS emulation
- eINIT Init alternative
- InitNG Init alternative
- HOWTO Use Hpasm
- HOWTO Make RC Scripts
- HOWTO Migrate to GCC 3.4
- HOWTO RTAI & COMEDI Using Kernel 2.6
- HOWTO ADEOS-based RTAI/fusion on Gentoo
- HOWTO ADEOS-IPIPE and Xenomai
- HOWTO Xenomai 2.1.x Branch
- Intel C++ Compiler
- HOWTO Create an UTF-8 enabled system
- HOWTO Recover from "emerge --unmerge gcc"
- HOWTO Restoring Removed Key System Packages
- HOWTO Merge OpenSceneGraph
- HOWTO Migrate to GCC 4.1
- HOWTO gcc4
- HOWTO prefetch files on boot
- HOWTO Create a DOS boot disk
- HOWTO Create a DOS boot USB flash drive
- HOWTO Optimise glibc
- Logwatch
- Metalog
- Rsyslog
- Syslog-ng
- HOWTO create a logserver with syslog-ng
- HOWTO Move Files to a Trash
- HOWTO pam usb
- Conky
- GKrellM
[edit] Backup/Archive
- Backup
- HOWTO Backup to DVD
- HOWTO Backup using ZFS How to use ZFS make backups of your system.
- HOWTO Clone a Gentoo system
- HOWTO Baras
- Bacula
- HOWTO Encrypted Backup System Using Bacula and GnuPG
- HOWTO Backup to Laser Servo Diskettes
- HOWTO Custom Stage4
- HOWTO cvs home dir - Archive your home directory
[edit] Burning CDs/DVDs
- ATAPI CD Burning - Burning a CD
- HOWTO Burn Encrypted DVDs - Mountable, encrypted DVD backups
- HOWTO Burn Encrypted Optical Media With Luks - Mountable, encrypted CDr/DVDr media
- Create a DVD
- Create an Audio CD
- Packet Writing on a CD-RW - Write to a CD like a filesystem
- SCSI Burning - Burning a CD the old way, or using a burner remotely via RSCSI
- HOWTO Lightscribe - Burn labels onto lightscribe-compatible discs using your lightscribe-compatible CD/DVD drive
[edit] File Systems
See Also: Security Filesystem
- HOWTO Convert Filesystems
- HOWTO Encrypt the swap space using dm-crypt and baselayout
- HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS
- HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using EncFS
- HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using LUKS and pam_mount
- HOWTO Find broken links
- HOWTO Automatically overwrite your swap with zeros on halting your system
- HOWTO Manipulate (move, resize) hard disk partitions
- HOWTO Mount Windows partitions (DOS, FAT,NTFS)
- hfs+ kernel support, mkfs.hfsplus, fsck.hfsplus
- NTFS-3G
- HOWTO Update Reiser4 Partitions
- HOWTO Reiser4 With Gentoo-Sources Reiser4 on gentoo-sources 2.6.12-3
- HOWTO Use filesystem ACLs
- HOWTO Read-only root filesystem
- HOWTO clean /tmp tmpwatch, tmpreaper, tmpfs etc.:
- HOWTO Mount UFS partitions
- HOWTO GmailFS analog of Gmail Drive for Windows
- HOWTO use User Quota's
- HOWTO Truecrypt
- Autofs Automatically Mount Filesystems]]
- ivman Generic Volume Manager
- gnome-volume-manager Gnome Volume Manager
- thunar-volman Thunar Volume Manager
[edit] Processes
[edit] Users
- HOWTO CHROOT Login
- HOWTO Let a User Shutdown/Reboot
- HOWTO Reset a Lost Root Password
- HOWTO Remove User
[edit] X Server
[edit] General
- HOWTO Activate Graphical Login
- HOWTO Autostart Programs
- HOWTO Modular Xorg
- HOWTO Switch from XFree to X.Org
- HOWTO XFS and Custom Fonts
- HOWTO X.Org & Fonts
- HOWTO Widescreen Resolutions (WSXGA)
- HOWTO Eliminate warning "(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm bios) (No such file or directory)"
- HOWTO Large Mouse Cursors
- HOWTO get 2 users on 1 pc
- HOWTO startx in a chroot
[edit] Desktop Environments
- HOWTO Same look for QT, GTK 2 and GTK 1 apps
- HOWTO Entrance
- GDM GNOME Display Manager
- HOWTO GDM Sessions
- HOWTO Get rid of GTK 1.x
- HOWTO look and feel of windows under a linux base
- HOWTO Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK