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| − | ==What is Gentoo?==
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| − | [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo GNU/Linux]
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| − | is a distribution that excels at compile-time customizability. As a
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| − | rare but offered for reserved cases like OpenOffice.Org, which can take hours
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| − | ==Using Gentoo at Virginia Tech==
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| − | ===Local Mirror===
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| − | Virginia Tech provides a Gentoo mirror at [http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/].
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| − | You can make use of it by modifying the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable in
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| − | <pre>GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/"</pre>
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| − | Virginia Tech also provides a portage mirror that you can 'emerge --sync' to:
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| − | <pre>SYNC="rsync://mirror.cc.vt.edu/gentoo-portage"</pre>
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| − | (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 http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo-portage].)
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| − | ===NTP===
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| − | Virginia Tech has NTP servers. See the [[NTP|NTP article]] for details.
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| − | ===Email===
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| − | It is easy to download your pid@vt.edu mail in Thunderbird, Evolution or your other mail client of choice. See [[Email|VT Email article]] for details.
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| − | ===Wireless===
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| − | 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.
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| − | key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
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| − | eap=TLS
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| − | private_key="/PATH/TO/NETCERT.p12"
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| − | </pre>
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