Gentoo is alive. Just wanted to state that for the record. I use it and it works fine. I say that having ditched Gentoo many times in the past looking for something better. I always end up coming back to Gentoo because it works best for me. If Gentoo sucked […]

Situation: You have two computers at different locations. One of them is behind a very restrictive firewall that doesn’t permit any incoming connections, and may be running Windows (ugh). The other is running Gentoo and is more permissive.
Problem: You want to play a game on these two computers, like ZSNES, which requires both […]

I found a need to install a Playstation emulator today, and recalling the minor nightmare installing ePSXe always turns out to be, I searched the Gentoo forums. There’s a (somewhat) new emulator called pSX which works really amazingly well. No need to hunt down video/audio/CD-ROM plugins, thank God. It just works. […]

This is why I like Gentoo. I installed ZSNES and I got version 1.51 from the Portage tree, but that version doesn’t have netplay. The version I want was some funky 1.42n version somebody wrote with netplay built in. It took me all of five minutes to write an ebuild based on the […]

The only thing bad about having two monitors in Linux is fullscreen apps, from time to time. Mplayer for example is smart, it fullscreens to whatever screen it’s on and leaves the other alone. VLC for example bugs out but at least it sticks to one monitor while doing so.
NWN is not […]