Advanced Gentoo Linux

Date and Time

Monday, January 24, 2005 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Location

MIT Building 4-231

Presenters

Rajiv Manglani - rajiv alum mit edu

Summary

Advanced usage of Gentoo Linux

Abstract

This session will cover advanced usage of Gentoo Linux, a versatile and fast distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, Alpha, AMD64, IA64, and MIPS systems that is geared towards Linux power users.

Details of Portage, the Gentoo package management system, will be presented. We will discuss creation of ebuild scripts, usage of various system tools such as qpkg and etcat. We will also have a detailed look into the init scripts system, and the various settings in make.conf. Current Gentoo users are encouraged to attend with their questions and anecdotes.

If you plan on attending either session, please RSVP to sipb-iap-gentoo@mit.edu.

For more information, contact: Rajiv Manglani, +1 (617) 566-5153, rajiv@alum.mit.edu. See also http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/gentoo/ [stuff.mit.edu]