Gentoo Linux 2007.0 guide
(3/2007)



»The Gentoo Linux Installer

Preston Cody
  The author presents a widely extensible installer for Gentoo that allows for fully customizable attended and un-attended installations. Thanks to this article Gentoo 2007.0 installation will not be a problem for you.


»Deploying Gentoo on Multiple Systems

Anant Narayanan
  After reading this article you will learn about some of the methods to set-up and utilize the Gentoo Linux distribution on a large number of computers. Anant presents a practical Gentoo deployment guide.


»Portage, the Gentoo Package Manager

Marius Mauch
  This writing provides some great information on Portage ebuild system that belong to the core assets of the Gentoo distro. It also presents configuration, basic operations and explanations on the main tools used with Poratge.


»Using iptables and the Netfilter Framework

Tim Heagarty
  This is a Part 1 of the series of articles showing you the tools that can be used to protect your network by adding another layer of defense to it. A great set of information that will help you protect your network from both external and internal threats.


»Application Performance Tuning Using GNU gproof and gcov

Steve Best
  The author teaches you how to find your program's hot spots and to eliminate these time consuming areas of the application with the use of a gproof profiler and a gcov, that helps you determine where the program optimizations should happen.


»Recipe for a Secure Server

William G.
  The article provides information on certain policies that you need to adhere in order to configure ans secure Linux servers. It is a step-by-step recipe to protect your server from attacks and threats.


»Picking a Laptop for Linux

Steve Carl,
  We prepared some essential tips that will help you choose the best Notebook for Linux. We also asked advanced Linux users which model they chose and how they are finding it in practice.


»Tricks & Tips

Ringo Kamens,
  Ringo explains how to switch to a completely free operating system and Mark provides some useful commands for those performing Linux system administration.




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  • DVD 1 - You will find Gentoo Linux 2007.0 x86 LiveDVD here. All you need to do now is just boot your computer from the DVD 1, open Linux+DVD magazine on page 10 and enjoy installing, configuring and then – working with Gentoo 2007.0!
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