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Some time ago I switched my server (a G4 Mac) from MacOSX to Gentoo Linux. In the process, the secondary internal disk (where I keep the mail storage, among other things) remained formatted as HFS+, because it made the transition easier. However, I kept having problems with it. For example, if the machine shut down [...]

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Update: new overlay for xscreensaver 5 (see below)
A Linux driver for the fingerprint reader found in some of the newer Thinkpads has been released (I have a T43p). I got it to work on Gentoo using the instructions and ebuilds provided by Tobias Sager, which are based on the original instructions found in the very [...]

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I updated my xorg-x11 installation in my Gentoo machine to version xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc1, which uses the new “modular X.org” architecture. It was mostly painless. Here are the steps:
1. Unmerge the old xorg-x11 (make a binary package in case you want to go back: quickpkg xorg-x11)
2. Copy the whole xorg-x11 section from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to /etc/portage/package.unmask
3. emerge -av [...]

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GoboLinux – the alternative Linux distribution:
An interesting new Linux distribution, which uses a directory structure similar to MacOSX, which while unusual from the Unix point of view, actually makes sense once you get used to it – particularly the every-application-in-its-own-directory concept, which makes it very easy to manage applications. This is actually an old concept [...]

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My regular work machine is a laptop with Gentoo Linux. However, for ocassional use, I also have a desktop machine under my desk running Windows. So far, using it involved keeping a second keyboard and mouse somewhere on my desk, and dragging them out whenever I wanted to use the Windows machine (I have [...]

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I recently got a new work laptop: a very nice Thinkpad T43p to replace my older T30. My first act, as usual, was to wipe the preinstalled Windows and put Gentoo Linux on it. For the most part, things went smoothly, but I had to fight to get it to sleep properly.
There is a lot [...]

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Note: some time has passed since I wrote this article. While the general idea still holds, the dovecot configuration format has changed in recent versions, so please don’t use the file I show here blindly.
I recently switched all my locally-stored email in my work machine from Evolution 1.4 to a local IMAP server, using the [...]

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