Recently I’ve rented a server partition from a German provider which turned out to be a linux-vserver partition. About five or six years ago I have experimented with linux-vserver myself, still have headaches when it comes to its security implications…
Unfortunately the provider has not offered any Gentoo images. Despite that and by the means of the rescue shell, I have installed Gentoo on it. Here is how: Read more »
Unlike Apache httpd server Nginx has no ebuilds which let you select which modules you want to have installed with it. Yet.
On last Saturday I have written an eclass to simplify maintaining Nginx ebuilds and added a new Portage variable NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND. In other words, from that on you can select Nginx modules like for Apache. As an example, Read more »
The nice thing about Gentoo is that you can extend its port-like “portage” system by third-party trees. They are called ‘overlays‘ to the official main tree. I have started mine about four years ago after having used Gentoo for more than three years, then. A lot has changed, but something is still missing – and that’s my OSSDL overlay meant for.
The overlay has ebuilds for Read more »
When talking about Linux, most people really mean that-Linux-Kernel-with-userland-tools. And there are a lot of flavours of that as distrowatch shows. As being asked a lot what and why I use [it], here is the answer: Gentoo. And that’s why: Read more »
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