Index:HOWTO

This page is dedicated to full HOWTO's. Feel free to add your own sub-category if necessary but be careful and ensure your guide is placed into the proper category and that your sub-category is pertinent. If you're just getting started with Gentoo, try reading this: Beginners Guide. See also Wanted Articles.

Contents 1 Installation Methods 1.1 Booting / Multiboot (Windows, MacOSX, ...) 1.2 LiveCDs 1.3 Architectures / Platforms 1.3.1 Computers 1.3.2 Gentoo on gaming consoles (not mobile consoles) 1.3.3 Portage on other Operating Systems 1.3.4 Embedded 1.4 RAID / LVM 2 Kernel & Hardware 2.1 General 2.2 ACPI & APM 2.3 Graphics 2.4 Hard Disk 2.5 Peripherals 2.6 Printers 2.7 Scanners 2.8 Sound 2.9 UPS 2.10 USB 2.11 Virtualization 3 Miscellaneous 3.1 Build a Gentoo High Performance Cluster 3.2 Learning and Teaching Gentoo 4 Networks & Services 4.1 General 4.2 Apache Related 4.3 Bluetooth 4.4 Content Management Systems 4.5 DNS 4.6 Database Management Systems 4.7 Diskless 4.8 FTP 4.9 High Availability and Failover 4.10 Instant Messaging 4.11 IRC 4.12 IrDA 4.13 LAN 4.14 Network Filesystems 4.15 Mail Servers 4.16 Modems 4.17 Music / Broadcasting Servers 4.18 P2P 4.19 PPP 4.20 Remote Access Services 4.21 RFID 4.22 Routing 4.23 Security & Anonymity 4.23.1 Anonymizing Services 4.23.2 Firewalls and Port Related Articles 4.23.3 Intrusion Detection 4.23.4 Securing SSH 4.23.5 SELinux 4.23.6 VPN 4.23.7 Other Articles 4.24 Wireless LAN 4.25 Other Services 5 Portage 6 Software 6.1 Audio 6.2 Compiling 6.3 Desktop 6.4 Multimedia 6.5 Server 6.6 Web-based Applications 6.7 Other 7 System Related 7.1 General 7.2 Backup/Archive 7.3 Burning CDs/DVDs 7.4 File Systems 7.5 Processes 7.6 Users 8 X Server 8.1 General 8.2 Desktop Environments 8.2.1 GNOME 8.2.2 KDE 8.2.3 Lightweight Desktops 8.2.4 Xfce 8.3 GL Compositing 8.4 Hardware 8.5 Network 8.6 Window Managers 9 Gaming 9.1 Wine & Cedega 9.1.1 Wine and Cedega Games 9.1.2 Wine and Cedega Other 10 Specific to non-x86 architecture 11 Emulators

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
• SSH-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

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• Troubleshoot Gentoo Install
• Kernel Common Problems in Fedora Wiki describes many workarounds.

Booting / Multiboot (Windows, MacOSX, ...)

• 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

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

Architectures / Platforms

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

Gentoo on gaming consoles (not mobile consoles)

• Install Gentoo on a Xbox
• Install Gentoo on a PlayStation 2
• Install Gentoo on a PlayStation 3

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)

Embedded

• General presentation of all the howto related to gentoo embedded
• Embedded Gentoo
• Embedded x86 Gentoo (live CD with NTFS write support)

RAID / LVM

• Software RAID
  • Install Gentoo on Software RAID
  • Install Gentoo on Software RAID Mirror & LVM2
  • EVMS Enterprise Volume Management System
  • Install Gentoo on Software RAID Mirror & LVM2 & EVMS & fully LUKS crypted
  • Migrate To Software RAID
  • Resynchronize Software RAID Mirror
• Other RAID
  • Install Gentoo on Bios (Onboard) RAID
  • Install Gentoo with NVRAID using dmraid
• LVM
  • Install Gentoo on LVM2 Root Partition
  • Resize a RAID5 array containing LVM2
  • Install Gentoo on loop-AES encryption on LVM2 Root Partition

Kernel & Hardware

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
• 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)

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

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

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

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

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

Scanners

• Installing USB Scanner
• HOWTO EPSON CX3650 & DX3850 : scanner and printer configuration
• HOWTO HP OfficeJet 6310 : scanner and printer configuration

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)
• speechd Let your Gentoo speak
• Speak the contents of the clipboard
• 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

UPS

• UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
• Apcupsd
• Energizer UPS
• Liebert PowerSure Personal XT
• NUT

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
• Wacom Tablet
• Aiptek Tablet
• iRiver
• HOWTO Xbox 360 controller on Linux
• Logitech Precision Gamepad
• HOWTO Delorme EarthMate GPS LT-20

Virtualization

• Category: Virtualization - Virtualization related articles
• Category: VMware - VMware related articles.
• Xen
• Virtual Xen Servers and Gentoo
• Clone a Xen VM with LVM
• KVM
• Qemu
• OpenVZ
• Install WebVZ 2.0 WebGUI for OpenVZ
• VirtualBox
• VirtualBox-bin

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
• 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

Build a Gentoo High Performance Cluster

• HOWTO Configure Gentoo Linux for Clustering
• HOWTO MPI Programming
• HOWTO Torque/Maui - grid scheduler and resource manager

Learning and Teaching Gentoo

• Plan, setup and run a high school Gentoo Club
• run a Gentoo Install Competition

Networks & Services

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

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

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

Content Management Systems

• HOWTO Dragonfly CMS (Content Management System)
• HOWTO Plone
• HOWTO Alfresco
• HOWTO Maintain a Gentoo web server running Joomla

DNS

• BIND
• BIND with DLZ, MySQL and replication
• DJBDNS
• Dynamic DNS
• Dynamic DNS with an updating daemon
• EveryDNS

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)

• HOWTO Oracle 10g
• HOWTO Oracle 10g Express Edition

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?

FTP

• ProFTPD
• PureFTPD using MySQL Auth & PhpMyAdmin
• PureFTPD using MySQL authentication and Usermanager
• vsftpd
• ProFTPD with TLS/SSL
• Corporate FTP Server with ProFTPD

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

Instant Messaging

• Ejabberd Jabber server
• Jabberd2 Jabber server
• Openfire Jabber server
• talkd Terminal based multi-user talk client

IRC

• HOWTO Eggdrop
• HOWTO psyBNC
• HOWTO ircd-hybrid
• HOWTO identd using oidentd

IrDA

• IrDA

LAN

• HOWTO Print WinServer
• HOWTO Setup a Home Server
• HOWTO Use a D-Link Print Server
• HOWTO Serving Mac
• Setup a Bridge
• Transparent Squid 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

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
• Access NFS via SFU
• HOWTO Access your JungleDisk

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

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

Music / Broadcasting Servers

• Icecast OGG and MP3 Streaming Server
• MediaTomb UPnP Media Server]]
• MPD Music Player Daemon
• mt-daapd Apple iTunes Server
• Rivendell Streaming Radio]]

P2P

• aMule
• Azureus
• giFT
• MLDonkey
• Qsubmit e2dk urls protocol handler for MLDonkey
• Rtorrent
• HOWTO Setup A Bittorrent Tracker

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

Remote Access Services

• HOWTO telnetd Installation of a telnet server daemon
• HOWTO sshd Installation of a secure shell server daemon

RFID

• Omnikey CardMan 5321 installation

Routing

• HOWTO DNAT+SNAT+OpenVPN+iproute2: routing setup

Security & Anonymity

Anonymizing Services

• Anonymity with TOR & Privoxy
• Anonymity with TOR on the Web
• HOWTO Freenet

Firewalls and Port Related Articles

• Iptables for Beginners - The linux firewall system.
• HOWTO autossh and knockd
• HOWTO Port Knocking

Intrusion Detection

• HOWTO IDS
• HOWTO NIDS
• HOWTO Snort

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

SELinux

• HOWTO SELinux
• HOWTO Null Selinux on non-SELinux profile
• HOWTO Understand SELinux

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

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
• S/KEY
• Snoop terminal sessions

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

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
• Tunnel VNC over SSH
• yaa

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

Software

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
• Linuxsampler

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

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
• Adobe Flash
• 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
• Screencasting with vnc2swf
• Skin the Lock/Unlock Dialog in Xscreensaver
• Skype
• Windows equivalent programs

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

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.
• 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

Web-based Applications

• Coppermine - Image gallery.
• Installing the W3C Validator

Other

• Convert Microsoft LIT to Palm DOC (pdb)
• LaTeX
• Convert LaTeX to HTML with MathML
• 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

System Related

General

• HOWTO Manage services and runlevels via a modern GUI
• HOWTO Create a Run Level
• DOSEMU
• 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
• Using Unicode and UTF-8
• Locales
• 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

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

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

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

Processes

• HOWTO Killing a process in uninterruptable sleep state

Users

• HOWTO CHROOT Login
• HOWTO Let a User Shutdown/Reboot
• HOWTO Reset a Lost Root Password
• HOWTO Remove User

X Server

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

Desktop Environments

• HOWTO Same look for QT, GTK 2 and GTK 1 apps
• 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

GNOME

• GNOME for the End-User
• Update GNOME
• GNOME Admin Guide quick-n-dirty
• Beautify GNOME
• Customizing GNOME
• Avoid GTK 1.2
• HOWTO Migrate from Xscreensaver to Gnome-Screensaver
• Remove Gnome

KDE

• KDE4
• HOWTO Update KDE without downloading full sources
• HOWTO KMail gpg-agent kde
• HOWTO Update KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4
• HOWTO ssh-agent the easy way
• Secure Kmail with SpamAssassin and ClamAV
• KMail/BitDefender
• HOWTO Resize Images using ServiceMenus (right click)
• HOWTO Integrate Firefox with KDE
• HOWTO OpenOffice with KDE
• HOWTO remove KDE

Lightweight Desktops

• WindowMaker
• Openbox
• Fluxbox
• IceWM
• FVWM
• Enlightenment DR17
• EvilWM
• RatPoison
• PekWM
• Ion

Xfce

• Xfce

GL Compositing

• XGL
• AIGLX
• HOWTO nVidia GL Desktop Effects
• HOWTO Metisse
• Compiz Fusion

Hardware

• HOWTO Automatically Shutdown Your Monitor
• HOWTO Dual Monitors
• HOWTO Enabling Monitor Power Saver
• HOWTO fix Intel 855/915 misbehaviour
• HOWTO Advanced Mouse
• HOWTO Setup MythTV
• HOWTO Setup MythTV in Framebuffer
• HOWTO X Window through Hauppauge 350 TV Out
• HOWTO Separate X-Screens on TV & Monitor
• HOWTO Use Multimedia Keys
• HOWTO Heyu get X10 Controller software and Daemon working with the Serial Port.
• HOWTO Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000
• Zboard MERC Gaming Keyboard

Network

• HOWTO FreeNX Server - Accessing X11 over low-bandwidth connections
• HOWTO FreeNX Server - lazy version - intended for simple setups, just copy & paste!
• HOWTO TIVO Wireless & Gentoo Firewall
• HOWTO Use VNC to connect to existing X Sessions
• HOWTO X-forwarding Setup X-Forwarding for use in ssh
• HOWTO sftp command line completion Enable command line completion in sftp
• XDMCP - X Display Manager Control Protocol
• HOWTO XVNC Terminal Servers

Window Managers

See the Window Manager Index

Gaming

• Doom
• Unreal Tournament
• UT2004
• Unreal Tournament 2004 Dedicated Server
• Darwinia
• Joystick
• Joystick as Mouse
• Running old Loki games
• Chess
• Minimize fullscreen games
• ePSXe PSX emulator
• Savage

Wine & Cedega

• Wine
• Cedega
• HOWTO Use Cedega & CD Image Mounting

Wine and Cedega Games

• Games known to run under Wine and Cedega
• Games with Wine (Black Isle)
• Continuum
• Counter-Strike 1.6
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• StarCraft
• World of Warcraft

Wine and Cedega Other

• HOWTO Run Powergrab
• HOWTO Ventrilo Via Wine
• HOWTO Watchtower Library 2005
• Photoshop
• HOWTO Install GoogleEarth with wine - Outdated, linux version in portage
• HOWTO Install Internet Explorer 6 SP1
• HOWTO Ebooks

Specific to non-x86 architecture

• HOWTO Gentoo on Mac OS X
• Apple iBook
• HOWTO setup Gentoo on a PDA or embedded system
• HOWTO Use prefixed portage (in development)

Emulators

• HOWTO Softgun ARM Emulator
• HOWTO PearPC
• HOWTO Setup Bochs
• Qemu
• HOWTO Basilisk II

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