skimpydog-gentoo

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:37:42 -0600

So my new project as of lately is skimpydog-gentoo.

This is Gentoo, 32bit - built how I like it.

When asked "what is the purpose of skimpydog-Gentoo?": it is to promote safe computing practices, and to introduce others to Linux - A free Operating System. I did NOT write this, I put it together, and worked out bugs - I created a few scripts to assist with ease of use.

You may download, and watch the installation video as a demonstration of the installation:
AVI ~215MB
Flash ~72MB
iPhone/iPod Touch/Android/PSP ~136MB
iPhone 4 ~177MB

When asked about Linux (by a stranger), I normally have to follow up with: "There's nothing wrong about not running Windows, I use Microsoft Windows as well".

An example use of Linux: What does the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Android run? Your computer can run it much better.

I am updating the tar.bz2 (compressed files) as often as I can, as well as the installation instructions - but not too often as my goal is stability on an Intel ChipSet without using proprietary drivers/code; and attempting to keep things in layman's terms.
- However complex computers may be, the more familiar You become with the terminology the better off you will be. Computers are not going away anytime soon.

Built for an Intel based architecture, this is fully bloated with:

#gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r6
#xorg-server-1.7.7-r1
#mesa-7.7.1
#Gnome-2.30.2 built with hal support
#Compiz-Fusion-0.8.6
#cairo-dock-1.5.4.2
#enlightenment-1.0.2
#supertux
#superkart
#extreme-tuxracer
#python-2.6.5
#mythtv-0.23.1_p25496
#lirc
#gphoto2
#dialup support

Works right out of the box with dualhead nVidia older cards, like GeForceFX 5600. "eselect set opengl nvidia". You may use "eselect opengl list" to see what is available:

 X11 # eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
  [1]   nvidia *
  [2]   xorg-x11

With Intel Based Video cards i810, i915 (I assume newer chipsets as well; just not tested), use "eselect set opengl xorg-x11", and modify /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf by using one of the examples for Hardware Video acceleration:

 /etc/X11 # ls xorg.conf*
xorg.conf           xorg.conf.example          xorg.conf.org
xorg.conf.DualDead  xorg.conf.nvidia.TwinView  xorg.conf.solo.intel

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Fighting Virii

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:40:00 -0600

Fighting Virii in Linux can be hard if you do not know how to do this.

This article shows a few methods on finding problematic scripts, and can potentially help in determining if this contents are malicious.

Here is a direct link to the forum:
Finding the culprit(s)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:40:00 -0600

This is actually the DOS version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

This is an Old Skool game that will knock your socks off trying to beat!

RHEL5

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:40:00 -0500

Rhel 5 is rather new.

Server virtualization, apache, samba...

skimpydog.com

skimpydog-gentoo

Fighting Virii

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

RHEL5