TODO: move wpa_supplicant information to the wifi page ==What is Gentoo?==[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo GNU/Linux]is a distribution that excels at compile-time customizability. As arule, all packages are compiled from source code. Binary packages arerare but offered for reserved cases like OpenOffice.Org, which can take hoursto compile on modern machines. ==Using Gentoo at Virginia Tech=====Local Mirror===Virginia Tech provides a Gentoo mirror at [http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ 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. <pre>GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/"</pre>Virginia Tech also provides a portage mirror that you can 'emerge --sync' to: <pre>SYNC="rsync://mirror.cc.vt.edu/gentoo-portage"</pre>(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].) ===NTP===Virginia Tech has NTP servers. See the [[NTP|NTP article]] for details. ===Email===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. ===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.<pre>network={ ssid="VT-Wireless" key_mgmt=WPA-EAP eap=TLS identity="PID" private_key="/PATH/TO/NETCERT.p12" private_key_passwd="PASSWORD"}</pre>[[Category:Linux distributions]][[Category:Howtos]][[Category:Needs restorationPending deletion]]