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Robin H. Johnson (robbat2) speaks with David Abbott (dabbott)
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Developer Robin H. Johnson , who is a trustee board member, infrastructure team lead, spoke with David Abbott . Robin is the backbone of the Gentoo infrastructure team which includes theforums, bugzilla, and most important, the Gentoo Portage tree. He describes his first open source project, phpMyadmin, how he became a Gentoodeveloper, and the layout of the infrastructure. "Nearly 50 percent of the infrastructure hardware is taken up by webapplications, because we have a lot of separation between web applications thathave a high security exposure. Admittedly some of the web services are a verybig deal for Gentoo, like our Bugzilla service, running on 4 machines sponsoredby the Dutch social network, Hyves. Very recently we've gotten new hardware forForums, sponsored by Gossamer Threads. The next largest slice after that is themachines that provides rsync.gentoo.org service. Only then do we get down toindividual machines for purposes. There's some cases where having more hardwa ...
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In memory of Ferris E. McCormick (fmccor): trustee, developer, and friend.
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It is with sadness that we as Trustees bring forward this news that we haverecently received. Ferris Ellsworth McCormick, better known as fmccor, haspassed away unexpectedly on the 5th of August. His ...
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The Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Donate $500 to the ElectronicFrontier Foundation in honor of
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All, Many of you have, no doubt, learned of the recent loss to the Gentoocommunity. Known fondly as fmccor, Mr. Ferris E. McCormick's death was tragicand unexpected. His many contributions to the g ...
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Gentoo Ten LiveDVD Testing
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Attention Gentoo Community, In honor of Gentoo's 10th birthday, we are producing a new livedvd! We needYOU to test it on as many x86 and x86_64 machines as you can and post bugs.Please report you ...
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An interview with Patryk Rz?dzi?ski, head of IT at OSTC Poland.
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Global Financial Derivatives trading company, OSTC Poland , uses Gentoo Linux in significant sectors of its IT infrastructure. We spoke with long time Gentoo user and head of OSTC Poland's IT depart ...
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Gentoo Linux - Ten Years Compiling: 1999 - 2009
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Happy Tenth Birthday, Gentoo! Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the immediate availability of a new,special edition LiveDVD to celebrate this monumental occasion. The LiveDVDfeatures a superb li ...
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2009 Gentoo 10 Screenshot Winners
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Woot! Happy Birthday Gentoo. As part of the Birthday party today we announce thewinning screenshots. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. There were 54 entries using 5different window manag ...
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Gentoo Ten Live DVD 10.1 Release
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Attention Gentoo Community, After numerous bug fixes and enhancements the Ten Team would like to encourageeveryone to try out the 10.1 release. A FAQ is available to assist you. We have also sta ...
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Gentoo KDE3 Deprecation Notice
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Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to increase the volume to its maximumlevel for this important message. After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to stabilise KDE4on both major ...
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Yes-No Vote on behalf of the Foundation
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The Gentoo FoundationInc. has been approached by a few large Gentoo users about purchasingadvertising on the gentoo.org side bar. They are not in the IT industry socannot support us in the traditio ...
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