What do you do with your Gentoo System?

dylix · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

look @ pr0n
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cuerty · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

I use Gentoo for... For what do you use a computer anyway? :p

Gamming, coding (I work of that) sysadmin (of that too :p). Test some crazy linux-only things, write code, patchs for gnu proyects.... But basically, for anithing that I culd use the PC for.
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lat3ncy · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:

everything! I'm coming to the end of my slavery to Windows once I have finished my current college assignment.

web browsing (firefox)
IM chatting (gaim)
IRC (xchat or bitchx in console)
email (postfix/fetchmail/mutt or sylpheed via imap)
music (juk or xmms)
games (currently UT2004 and quakeforge)

also i use it from work via ssh to read mail in mutt and use net tools like whois, hostx and traceroute and of course dopewars!

For a while I've been at the point where booting Windows leaves me bored and not really sure what to do. Much like most new linux users! Swings and roundabouts I think is the saying...

mixa · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

I use my Gentoo box for everything I do with computer, usually:
- Surf the net
- Chat on IRC (with irssi, of course!)
- Watch videos
- Listen to music
- Graphics (Inkscape, mostly)
- Coding stuff (python <3)
- Gaming
- Downloading stuff with Azureus, gtk-gnutella, etc..
- Tweak the window manager (kahakai at the moment

)

And sometimes I use this for word processing and other office things I have to do for school.

fwerner · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject: multimedia machine

i mainly use it as a multimedia machine (audio & video)

i have a small server also: samba, ftp, apache2, php, mysql, egroupware, qmail, courier-imapd & procmail...

vivi131313 · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject: HIPPY???!!!!

So i've been busy for a few days and just noticed that some a$$ called me a hippie. WTF? Anyway, I'm definitely not a hippie, just a sophmore EE/CPE major at the best undergrad engineering college in the nation (5 years straight, yay!) and I jsut spent a month getting this thing running and was curious what cool things i could list a worthwhile reasons for that time investment, instead of sleeping. :-D

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Hypnos · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: HIPPY???!!!!

vivi131313 · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject: I know, and it's no big deal...

No big deal, I was hoping you were joking. But i couldn't leave myself hanging after being called a hippie.
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miya · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Argentina

besides the usual stuff, lately i`ve been trying to understand use the epix package (latex related, it uses eepic, and eepics to draw stuff with latex.) its really useful for my homework at college.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Right now I'm using it to listen to some Rammstein. That's called "live usage". Don't you just love the innovation? lol

regeya · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 4:55 am Post subject:

Wait wait wait...there are people out there who go to the trouble of installing Gentoo without having a reason to do so?

That's messed up, man...

Seriously, I use Gentoo for most the things that people mentioned above. I only use my machine to do things like Web surfing, IRC, email, listening to music, etc. About the only thing I do on my computer at home that's work-related is occasionally taking OS X Server logs from work to home for analysis. Sure, I could do that at work, but that involves staying at work. :wink:

Why Gentoo, and not Windows, MacOS, or some friendly Linux distribution? I don't mind the extra trouble I get from such a system, and to tell the truth I was just thinking today that my Gentoo box was getting a bit boring -- too stable! :lol:

Psych0 · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:56 am Post subject:

I use my Gentoo box for everything I use a pc for at home. Web surfing, answering questions on the forums when I can now and then, email, office stuff occasionally, multimedia - playing dvd's & music, making my own CD's. games - UT-2004 & Quake3, a little web mastering, a little admittedly poor art.

Re-configuring things, and playing with 'new' programs. Breaking it, and then fixing it again. Hey, no pain, no gain.

Blowing people away that Linux is this hot, I love that part. And I hate having to use WinDoze at work. My Gentoo box just fits so much better, everything is set up the way I like it, it's second nature to drive...

I don't think I've used WinDoze at home in like three years.
I love Gentoo, 2.6.5-r1 kernel, Fluxbox-0.9.9 It's dual head aware now, yes!!

The wife's still running Libranet, and has WinDoze on an old klunker for a few things she 'has to have' but never uses

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lagrima · Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:21 am Post subject:

everything thing that i used to do on my windows box plus a number of other things that i couldnt do on windows
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Robe · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 64

Two words : Internet P0rn!

asmund · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 27

Running gnome 2.6 on a 2.6.5 kernel.

Internet: Epiphany
Mail: Evolution (wondering if I should swithc to a lighter app, I use only the mail functions in Evolution, while the app offers so much more)
Instant messaging: Gaim (May swith to gossip as soon as they support the msn protocol.
Music: Muine Music Player (awesome app!)
p2p: giFT with giFTcurs or giFToxic
Video: Totem
Office: OpenOffice-Ximian and Gnumeric
CD-ripping: Sound-juicer (much cleaner user interface than grip)
Image editing: The Gimp, what else?
Cd burning: Nautilius-cd-burner, Gnome Toaster and Gnome CD Master.

I am trying to use mostly gnome apps to geat a clean interface. Downloading the UT2004 demo just now!

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I played some UT2004 today. Runs nice and smooth in Gentoo.

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

I use the system in a desktop role @ work.
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BlinkEye · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

Camp · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

Internet surfing, playing games, on server, icq, irc, forums
It's really good that I have installed Gentoo
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scooterphish · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

Well, since I wiped WinXP completely off the laptop, I use Getnoo Linux for everything.
I have used Linux/*BSD 100% since approx. 1996-98. I only use Windows if my employer requires it (i.e., I'm at THEIR building using THEIR computers).
Surfing/Mail - Firefox (all web based email or web interfaces to my IMAP accounts..easier that way when I'm mobile).
Web design - vi, emacs, nedit, bluefish..whatever fickles my tancy at the moment. I've yet to find an editor -outside of jedit- that allows me to easily edit remotely (save/load via ftp, et al). I find myself quite adept at editing, switching to another term/xterm, ftp'ing the file up to the sites and switching back to the editor, usually in another term window.
Graphics and photo editing - Gimp. Duh.
Papers, proposals, invoices, etc - OpenOffice
P2P - xmule, amule, limewire
IRC - Irssi, Epic4/5
Chat (Aim, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, etc) - Psi; looks & functions the same regardless of computing platform.

After recently acquiring a new, fast computer, I've rediscovered the beauty of Enlightenment as a window manager. I'd previously been using small light wm (like fluxbox) because the former compooter simply lacked any computing power at all.
The ONLY thing lacking is sound..I'm still trying to figure that one out.

TJNII · l33t Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 637 Location: for(;;);

Surfing the Web - Mozilla
Chatting - Gaim
Listening to music - Xmms
Watching my music - Goom
Watching TV - xawtv
Drawing schematics / routing PCBs - Eagle
Chatting on IRC - xchat-2
Various class related tasks - OpenOffice
Coding - Emacs
Seti@home
Webserver - Apache
Scanning documents - Xsane
Image editing - Gimp & kolourpaint
Burning CDs - k3b
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Garrido · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

Basically everything, both at home and at work...

At home:
- Breakin a lot of things so I can fix them (apache, proftpd, asterisk on the server and lately some python coding and kde eye-candy on my desktop box to impress my windows friends when they come over

)

At work:
- Usual office stuff on OpenOffice (though sometimes I still need to check tings out in MS Office when I have to send documents to people, since mine is the only Linux machine in the company

)
- Lots and lots and lots and lots of reading logs on our servers.... I often have 5-6 ssh sessions with logs open all over the place...

tkdfighter · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

Browsing these forums when I should be studying for my math test. :oops:

gaz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 126

-music
-programming
-chat
-web dev
-uni work

Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

I use Gentoo for watching anime [Have to boot Windows for anything with an aac audio stream though, ESPECIALLY if I want to work with internel subtitles, I don't have the patience for Mplayer's CLI crap despite the fact that h264 and aac streams work just fine.]
Taking a break from windows and its idiosyncrasies [IE it pissed me off for some reason.]
I do use IRC alittle bit in Linux but not being able to filter by type keeps me using Mirc in Windows whenever I am downloading alot of Anime [Auto accept all transfers is not really a good feature for security reasons.]
I use Gaim and Kopete depending on whether I am working in a GTK environment or a QT one such as KDE.
Amarok [Though i still like Winamp better.]
Firefox and thunderbird.
3ddesktop [I like watching it rotate to the given desktop number I bound f1-4 to, it looks so cool and only ever slows down when I use Portage (niced to ten) or do a locate -u.]
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