From the Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech Wiki

Contents 1 What is Gentoo? 2 Using Gentoo at Virginia Tech 3 Local Mirror 4 NTP 5 Email 6 Wireless

[edit] What is Gentoo?

Gentoo GNU/Linux is a distribution that excels at compile-time customizability. As a rule, all packages are compiled from source code. Binary packages are rare and reserved for cases like OpenOffice.Org, which can take hours to compile on modern machines.

[edit] Using Gentoo at Virginia Tech

[edit] Local Mirror

Virginia Tech provides a Gentoo mirror at http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/. You can make use of it by modifying the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in /etc/make.conf. An example setting for the variable is below.

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/"

Virginia Tech also provides a portage mirror that you can 'emerge --sync' to:

SYNC="rsync://mirror.cc.vt.edu/gentoo-portage"

(Note that the via rsync the URL has no /pub directory but via http the link is http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo-portage.)

[edit] NTP

Virginia Tech has NTP servers. See the NTP article for details.

[edit] Email

It is easy to download your pid@vt.edu mail in Thunderbird, Evolution or your other mail client of choice. See VT Email article for details.

[edit] Wireless

Connecting to VT-Wireless using WPA_Supplicant is easy. Below is an example wpa_supplicant.conf entry. See the VT-Wireless article for full details.

network={
    ssid="VT-Wireless"
    key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
    eap=TLS
    identity="PID"
    private_key="/PATH/TO/NETCERT.p12"
    private_key_passwd="PASSWORD"
}