What do you do with your Gentoo System?

trickypicky75 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

Me, Let's see.
I have a laptop, that I use for day to day work.
I have an OLD PII 450 at home that I use as a file/web/Dbase/Mail Server.
I have a AMD 2500 that I use as a Media Center and Game station,
And I administer a Dell SC600 @ work that we use as a File/Dbase/PHP/Web server, and it also acts as a member
server In our Windows domain (SSO w/samba). Administer is probably a bit of an overstatment,
Once I got everything setup and working properly, I haven't had to do anything but do an emerge sync
and an emerge -u world every week or so (Which I technically dodn't have to do. It runs great on it's own.

techjedi · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Connecticut

What to do with an old Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop (PII 333)?
Turn it into a web development testbed!

Mostly Apache and PHP, but other modules/etc are added as I need them.

Although, I think my next trick will be to turn it into a wireless mp3 jukebox and route the output through my stereo - perhaps with a slideshow of digital pictures

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shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

my computer is actually a toaster, i installed gentoo so that my toast comes out the way I want it!

seriously though....... its a toaster, with a bagel function (emerge bagel-func)

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dskennedy · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

Well, pretty much everything.

The only things I still use Windows for are Terragen and Apophysis, though I'm sure I could port them if I could be bothered.

In a week (not counting time when I'm at sixth form and have to use the XP machines) I'd say I use Linux 95% of the time.

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I also have three Gentoo servers. One is a web/db server, one is a plain webserver, and one is the mailserver/webserver/rsync server.

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PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

Everything. Email, browse the web, code, play games, watch movies... And play whit teh eyeKandy!

statmobile · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:15 am Post subject:

-ssh server
-simulation, calculation machine (I'm a PhD in statistics)
-file server for my lappy
-svn server
-imap server (why do companies consider POP3 sufficient?)
-automated backup of files
-recovery machine for windows buddies who eventually crash their system and need to recover their files
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Aries-Belgium · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:

Everything I did with Windows, but now better

- Surfing: Firefox
- Listen to music: XMMS
- Watch movies/dvd: Xine or Mplayer
- Programming: Scite (editor), g++ compiler, ...
- Webserver: Apache, php, mysql, ...
- Some other things ...

systerfrida · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:29 pm Post subject:

I have a laptop for w**k - apache, php, mysql test environment + xfce4 desktop, firefox, thunderbird, openoffice and even The Gimp. It's rather old (Gateway thingy, PIII I think) but it's the best working machine I've ever had.
At home, an old PII serves as firewall, web-, mail- and fileserver.
The multimedia workstation does everything else, watching movies, cd & dvd burning & ripping, listening to music, graphics, games, I even listen to the radio over the net since the regular reception sucks in my living room...

...everything except iTunes, actually.

Varean · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

My Gentoo Desktop-Internet {Konqueror(If you don't use it, you have no soul), Firefox} Word Processing and Presentations (Openoffice) Music and Media (Kmix, Mplayer, Kaboodle, Noatun) Games (Tux Racer

, trying to get UT2004) Programming (Kdevelop, Emacs) Email (Gmail) Photo editing (Gimp-DUH!) and chat (GAIM)
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songpenguin · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject:

I use gentoo for everything I would use a computer for :-)

. This is what I use my computer for (most to least).

I would use the computer for work more, except that when I do work I am usually not at home :-(

and have to use a Windows computer :cry:

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paddler · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:11 am Post subject:

mostly I compile

RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

Everything I used to do in Windows... Gaming, writing, printing, scanning, image editing, chatting, browsing, coding, watching movies, listening to music etc. When Nlite 1.0 beta5 comes out I will game on XP64 though...

ebrostig · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

My only problem with Linux is that I can't get Cisco IP Communicator to run, else I would use it exclusively. I can't do my job without my job phone!

At work, I have 2 pure Linux boxes and no Windows, at home (where I do most of my work), I have to use Windows due to Cisco.

I do however run testcases under Linux using Oracle 10.1.0.3 64-bit.
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m0p · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 205 Location: en_GB

I use it for everything, mainly:

Web browsing (Mozilla Firefox, custom build from mozilla.org CVS)
Email (Mozilla Thunderbird, again, custom built from the mozilla.org CVS)
Programming (Mainly webdevelopment in PHP/MySQL, and some C++)
Watching DVDs (Mplayer)
Listening to music (XMMS)
Gaming (Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and Counter-Strike with Cedega)

And everything else.

Ma3oxuct · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523

Just about everything:

Music (VLC)
Downloading stuff (amule, klibido in conjunction with Newshosting)
Watching films (VLC)
Playing UT2004, Doom3, ET, Chess
Writing book and other stuff (Openoffice, aiksaurus)
Editing images (Gimp)
Video and Audio editing (don't ask me to name the progs)
And ofcourse, surfing the net (Firefox or dillo)

afecelis · n00b Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Colombia

Well I can say I can do 95% of the stuff I used to do in windoze:

3d modeling and render- blender, wings, equinox, ac3d, yafray, povray
Image editing: the gimp (I also used it in windoze)
Websurfing/email/chat: firefox,thunderbird,amsn, ymessenger, kopete
Ftp: kftpgrabber
P2p: Bittornado-for torrent stuff (also in win)
Gaming: UT2003, quake 1,2,3 and mods, Legends, tribes2, planeshift, Nexuiz
Level editing: Gtkradiant, Quake army knife (wine), deled (wine)
Video watching: mplayer,kaffeine
MP3: amarok
Audio editing: audacity
Drumboxes: hydrogen
C++ programming: Gcc, glib, glibc, scintilla text editor,anjuta, kdevelop, Irrlicht 3d engine for game development and realtime visualization
CD-DVD burning: k3b
Office stuff: openoffice-compatible with ms office
Digital camera image downloading software: digikam
some other stuff I don't remember now

and all this for free!!! amazing, huh?

the 5% I'm missing is some pretty specific stuff I can only do in 3dsmax in win regarding to rendering and exporters and I don't feel like making 3dsmax run in linux via wine.

So now I see it this way: win for specific work stuff, linux for pleasure!

oh yes, and my desktop environment of choice after trying them all (kde, gnome, enlightment, xfce4): KDE! I love it.

windoze free since November 2004 and loving it!

Rafaeru · n00b Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Poland

Well, not only for the same reasons i used windoze - linux gave me some satisfaction - especially Gentoo ^_^

Usage is pretty straight, www, mail, chat, downloads, multimedia.

Right now i'm working on setting apache and php with mysql support to continue my work with websites, and i'm almost there to set up counter-strike and enjoy gentoo for all aspects

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nixnut · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

Use it for anything I do with a computer at home
reading
calculations
writting reports
browsing the web
moderating
testing packages
chatting
email
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Chaosite · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject:

What ever is needed.

ICQ (gaim),
Web design (Vi(m)!,
Coding (Vi(m)! Vi(m)! Vi(m)! Now fetch me a shrubbery),
Music (mpd+whatever client I feel like),
IRCing,
A little gaming,
Surfing, emailing, etc...

If I need to do it, odds are linux can.

naseweis · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:

I currently use gentoo to run 2 computers at home.
One is my amd64 desktop machine & the other is an FSC amilo laptop.
I use the desktop to play music on my home stereo via my sblive, play movies on my TV via the svideo-out and the onboard sound, record television from my bttv card and also as internet gateway for the other machines in our house, attached via lan, wlan and bluetooth.
It also runs some filesharing apps as well as pure-ftpd & apache2.

The laptop mostly acts as remote control unit for the desktop, for I prefer my couch/bed to my desk, and I do most of the surfing/email stuff with it. I usually have beep-media-player running on my desktop (hooked up to my stereo), X-forwarded to my (wlan-)laptop. This way I get the pleasure of playing mp3's from my huge speakers at my wireless laptop.

Devices attached to the desktop machine:
1 USB bluetooth dongle
1 wlan-AP
1 adsl-modem
1 usb-printer
1 winXP box via lan
1 gentoo laptop via wlan
1 winXP laptop via bluetooth
1 TV-set via a scart to svideo/cinch cable
1 (huge) hifi-stereo-set

Devices attached to the laptop:
none

I have been using linux exclusively for a couple of years now and I cannot think of anything computer-related, I would not use gentoo for. Being a former lfs user, I can't even think of any alternatives to gentoo today. Other distros just annoy me.
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olivierva · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 58 Location: London (UK)

On top of the usual I use Gentoo mainly for development, it's one of the few distributions which is suitable for it. Especially if you're constanly seeking for the latest releases of tomcat/jboss/php/apache/subversion or whatever.

And if an ebuild isn't there yet many ebuild maintainers are more than happy to help you,
Requests for new ebuilds can be put in Bugzilla (or you can make an ebuild yourself of course)

It's also (via forums/bugzilla/ebuild files) very easy to find out why a certain package is blocked not suported yet, etc.

In short you can mess around alot with Gentoo (as developers like to do) without breaking your Linux install (try that with an rpm based distro, changes are big you end up in a dependency hell, especially if you start downgrading)

Of course the irc channels on freenode.org are also helpfull

Cheers,

Olivier

PS As a Java developer I'm always looking around on Gentoo Experimental
and Gentoo Experimental Java SVN, great stuff!!!

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

I guess whatever a PC user does. I play games, I overclock, I read forums, chat on IRC and IM. I use it like a windows gamer would use windows. Only I have access to mroe code. :-P

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Phreakazoid_ · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:26 am Post subject:

Everything!

- Work
- Browse
- Listen to music
- Watch movies
- IRC / various IMs
- Email
- Tinker around with the system just for kicks
- Play games
- etc.