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One programming language that plays an important role especially in some Linux distro is Perl. In case of Gentoo, which is a source code base distro, dev-lang/perl is even more important than just another programming language. It is the language…
With the todays performance of our computer, the speed of compilation has been improved to the point that distributed building could be slower than local builds (it would take much more to throw your files and their dependency over your…
Few weeks ago I received my long awaited Raspberry Pi board. For those that (yet) don't know what a Raspberry-Pi is, "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable…
I succeed to tune my system so tight as it need only 98 MB of my 2GB of RAM to boot and run Xfce desktop. I am using a custom compiled kernel 3.2.2 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux which starts in top…
I have a Gentoo amd64 no-multilib configuration and sometimes I really need to run 32-bit application (Skype or Android SDK that are available only for 32bit environment). For these I have prepared a 32-bit chroot-ed environment as specified in 32Bit…
In Gentoo, to update your portage tree to the latest version one can do: emerge --sync In Gentoo, to fetch and merge the latest available packages into your system one can do: emerge -pvDuN world emerge -DuN world In Gentoo,…
To speed up the system init at boot-time, just edit your/etc/conf.d/rc and set the RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP variable to yes: RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" Also speed up boot with parallel init it's just a damn line!
I am already using a PC for more than 17 years so I am not enjoying any more of having "hundred" of useless applications/libraries/dependencies installed on my PC, a lot of fancy options which either I never use or I…
Ubuntu distro I'm already working on Ubuntu for some time and I was always wondering if there is another distro better than that. I am saying that because for few years Ubuntu was (and still is) in the top of…