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Contents 1 Tutorials Index 2 Desktop 3 Filesystems 4 Installation 5 Kernel & Hardware 5.1 Virtualization 6 Network 6.1 File Systems 6.2 FTP Servers 6.3 Mail Servers 6.4 Web Servers 6.5 Serving Mac 6.6 Other 7 Package Management 8 Software 9 Printers 10 Security 11 UPS 12 Version Control 13 X 13.1 GL Compositing 13.2 Consoles 14 Games 15 Other

Tutorials Index

This page is an index page and will link to many articles that fall under this category. If you are unsure how to name a new article please see the Naming Conventions guide.

Desktop

• Avant Window Navigator
• Conky
• Enlightenment 0.17 Window Manager
• GIMP Fractal Backgrounds
• MythTV
• Synchronise time (lightweight solutions)
• Toolkit Beautification

Filesystems

• Initramfs
• NTFS-3G
• OpenAFS with MIT Kerberos
• NFS

Installation

• Chroot from a livecd
• Safe Cflags
• Recommended packages

Kernel & Hardware

Virtualization

• Xen
• QEmu
• VirtualBox

Network

File Systems

• NFS - Creating and mounting NFS shares.
• Mounting a remote Shared Folder - Mounting Windows file shares
• OpenAFS with MIT Kerberos - How to set up an Andrew File System server, using the more secure Kerberos v5

FTP Servers

• ProFTPD

Mail Servers

• Dovecot
• Getmail
• Kerio MailServer
• Mail server using Postfix and Dovecot
• Postfix
• Qmail Domain Keys

Web Servers

• Apache 2
• Nginx

Serving Mac

• Share Directories using AFP

Other

• Madwifi Wireless Access Point‎
• Active Directory Authentication using LDAP
• NTP
• Time Synchronization

Package Management

• Dispatch-conf
• Sharing Portage over NFS
• USE Flags
• Updating your Gentoo Box
• Small Portage Tree via SquashFS and UnionFS
• Pkgcore, an alternative package manager
• Paludis, an alternative package manager

Software

• Lightweight package selection using Xfce (also suitable for office usage)

Printers

• CUPS - Printing Guide
• CUPS - PDF Printer

Security

• DM-Crypt
• pam_usb authentication
• Secure deletion
• TrueCrypt

UPS

• APC UPS Daemon

Version Control

• Git
• Subversion
• Trac

X

• X.Org
• X.Org/Dual Monitors
• Graphics drivers

GL Compositing

• Compiz-Fusion - eye candy

Consoles

• Rxvt-Unicode

Games

• Quake3 and other games using its engine
• Track Mania Forever startup scripts

Other

• Man Page - What a man page is and how you can view them.
• Unpacking UHArc's .uha archives - How to deal with .uha files
• Running Windows executables