Howto
This page is dedicated to full HOWTO's. Feel free to add your own sub-category if necessary but be careful and ensure your guide is placed into the proper category and that your sub-category is pertinent. If you're just getting started with Vector Linux, try reading this: Beginners Guide. See also Wanted Articles and the primary Vector Linux documentation.
Table of Contents
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Installation Methods
- Official Installation Guide
- Direct ISO on a Windows Host
- Install VectorLinux From Floppy Without A CD-ROM Drive
- Install VL Quick Reference
- Install VL on VMware 4 in Windows NT/2K/XP
- Install VL without a LiveCD
- Small Footprint VL on USB
- Convert A RedHat Server to VL Remotely
- HOWTO Install VL from an Atheros (MadWiFi) card
- Install VL with CD Floppy Emulation
- Reinstall VL keeping your old configuration
- VL Power Setup - The power user's "todo-list" for bootstrapping VL
Booting / Multiboot (Windows, MacOSX, …)
- Initramfs
- Dual Boot from Windows BootLoader (NTLDR) and why
- Dual boot
- Multi-OS, Multi-Disk Boot
- Dual boot with MacOSX on a MacBook Pro
- Install Linux after Windows
- Install Windows After VL
- Configure a dual boot windows linux to be able to open each OS in VMware
- Password reset procedure
- Boot From SAN
LiveCDs
Architectures / Platforms
Computers
Gentoo on gaming consoles (not mobile consoles)
Embedded
RAID / LVM
- Software RAID
** Install VL on LVM2 Root Partition
Kernel & Hardware
ACPI & APM
- CPU Throttling/Frequency Scaling
- [[HOWTO Fix Common ACPI Problems|Fix Common ACPI Problems]]
- [[HOWTO Getting APM Suspend to Work|Getting APM Suspend to Work]]
- [[HOWTO PowerNow!|PowerNow!]]
- [[HOWTO Shutdown headless server when power-button pressed]]
- [[HOWTO Software Suspend v2|Software Suspend v2]]
- [[HOWTO Undervolt a Pentium M CPU|Undervolt a Pentium M CPU]]
- [[HOWTO Power Management|Judge your power usage]]
General
- [[HOWTO Compile a Kernel Manually|Compile a Kernel Manually]]
- [[HOWTO Customizing UDEV|Customizing UDEV]]
- [[HOWTO Install a Kernel Patch|Install a Kernel Patch]]
- [[HOWTO Install kernel sources manually|Install kernel sources manually]]
- [[HOWTO Migrate to NPTL|Migrate to NPTL]]
- [[HOWTO Migrate to UDEV|Migrate to UDEV]]
- [[HOWTO Remote Kernel Upgrade|Remote Kernel Upgrade]]
- [[HOWTO Quick GRUB|Quick GRUB]]
- [[HOWTO INTEL XEON WITH EM64T Optimizations|Intel Xeon (EM64T)]]
- [[HOWTO Notes on open source and closed source states of AMD 64 drivers|Notes on open source and closed source states of AMD 64 drivers]]
- [[HOWTO iscsi]]
Graphics
- ATI Drivers
- [[HOWTO DRI with ATi Open-Source Drivers|DRI with ATi Open-Source Drivers]]
- [[HOWTO nVidia Drivers|nVidia Drivers]]
- [[HOWTO X850XT ATI Drivers|getting Asus X850XT working with the official ATI Drivers]]
- [[HOWTO ATI on amd64|ATI on amd64]]
- [[HOWTO Direct rendering on Intel Extreme Graphics (855GM) chipsets|Direct rendering on Intel Extreme Graphics (855GM) chipsets]]
- [[HOWTO Intel Onboard Graphics Notebooks Native Resolution|Intel Onboard Graphics Notebooks Native Resolution]]
- [[HOWTO fbsplash|Framebuffer Splash]]
- [[HOWTO Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash|Use Framebuffer, Bootsplash & Grubsplash]]
- [[HOWTO Create Gensplash Themes|Create Gensplash (Framebuffer Splash) Themes]]
- [[HOWTO Splash image in GRUB|Set Splash Image in GRUB]]
- [[HOWTO Linux Logo Hack|Linux Logo Hack]]
- [[HOWTO TV-Out|TV-Out]]
Hard Disk
- Monitor Your hard drive Using Smartmon Tools
- [[HOWTO Move Gentoo Installation to new hard disk|Move Gentoo Installation to new hard disk]]
- [[HOWTO Use hdparm to improve IDE device performance|Use HDParm to Improve Performance]]
- [[Filesystem support]]
- [[HOWTO HDD temperature check|Periodically check your hard disks temperature]]
- [[HOWTO HDD spindown small server|Spin down hard disks of a small (embedded) server]]
Kernel Flavors
- [[HOWTO no-sources|No Sources]]
Peripherals
- [[HOWTO gnome-volume-manager|Gnome Volume Manager]]
- [[HOWTO Multicard reader|Multicard reader]]
- [[HOWTO SD and MMC card readers|SD and MMC card reader (laptop)]]
- [[HOWTO setup touchscreen|Setup Elo Touchscreen]]
- [[HOWTO Auto mount filesystems (AUTOFS)|Kernel automounter]]
- [[HOWTO Submount|Submount]]
- [[HOWTO Supermount|Supermount]]
- [[HOWTO ivman|Use IVMAN]]
- [[HOWTO LIRC|HOWTO LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)]]
- [[HOWTO Install a webcam]]
- [[HOWTO static USB mouse|How to let your touchpad/usb to have a default symlink]]
- [[HOWTO Run a Sony EyeToy Camera]]
Printers
- [[HOWTO use the scanner and printer Samsung SCX4200]]
- [[HOWTO D-Link DP-100 HW Printerserver and others|D-Link DP-100 HW Printerserver and others & CUPS]]
- [[HOWTO Samsung ML-1710 with Samba/CUPS|Samba/CUPS network print server with Samsung ML-1710]]
- [[HOWTO Native Windows Printing with CUPS/Samba|Native Windows Printing with CUPS/Samba]]
- [[HOWTO Konica Minolta printers with CUPS and FOOMATIC|Konica Minolta printers with CUPS and FOOMATIC]]
- [[HOWTO EPSON CX3650 & DX3850 : scanner and printer configuration]]
- [[HOWTO Canon LBP 2900 with Samba|Printing on Canon LBP 2900 connected to Windows XP using CUPS]]
- [[HOWTO Cups Win No Samba|CUPS Server+Window Client W/O SAMBA]]
- [[HOWTO Linux printer sharing with CUPS|Linux printer sharing with CUPS]]
- [[HOWTO EPSON Stylus C80 Driver Installation]]
- [[HOWTO Brother Printer/Scanners]]
- [[Brother MFC 420CN]]
- [[HOWTO Turboprint]]
- [[HOWTO Create and Print to a Virtual PDF Printer]]
- [[Canon Pixma Series]]
- [[HOWTO Konica Copiers (i.e 7020,7030,etc)]]
- [[HOWTO Samsung CLP-510 Driver Installation]]
- [[HOWTO HP OfficeJet 6310 : scanner and printer configuration]]
Scanners
- Installing USB Scanner
- [[HOWTO EPSON CX3650 & DX3850 : scanner and printer configuration]]
- [[HOWTO HP OfficeJet 6310 : scanner and printer configuration]]
Sound
- ALSA
- [[HOWTO ALSA Complete (includes dmix)|Setup ALSA Complete (includes software mixing if necessary)]]
- [[HOWTO ALSA simple|Simple ALSA Software mixing]]
- [[HOWTO Jack|Install and configure JACK]]
- [[HOWTO Install Creative Sound Blaster Live 24-bit external (usb)|Install Sound Blaster Live 24-bit External (USB)]]
- [[HOWTO speechd|Let Your Gentoo Speak with Speechd]]
** [[Clipboard speak|Speak the contents of the clipboard]]
- [[HOWTO Surround Sound|Configure a Surround Sound Setup]]
- [[HOWTO nForce2 hw mixing|Configure nForce2 hw mixing (nvsound + alsa)]]
- [[HOWTO Virtual PC Speaker|Virtual PC Speaker]]
- [[HOWTO Logitech V10 Notebook Speakers|Configure Logitech's V10 Notebook Speakers]]
UPS
- [[HOWTO APCUPSD]]
- [[HARDWARE Energizer UPS]]
- [[HOWTO NUT]]
USB
- [[HOWTO Bluetooth Sync with Palm or PocketPC|Bluetooth Syncing with Palm or PocketPC]]
- [[HOWTO Configure Gentoo as a BlackDog host|Configure Gentoo as a BlackDog host]]
- [[HOWTO GPS / Microsoft GPS-360|GPS / Microsoft GPS-360]]
- [[HOWTO Griffin PowerMate with UDEV and Kernel 2.6.x|Griffin PowerMate with UDEV & Kernel 2.6]]
- [[HOWTO Installing USB Scanner|Installing USB Scanner]]
- [[HOWTO USB Mass Storage Device|USB Mass Storage Device]]
- [[HOWTO USB sync for Palm PDAs with Evolution 2.0 and udev|USB Sync Using Evolution & UDEV]]
- [[HOWTO USB LIRC streamZap|USB LIRC streamZap]]
- [[HOWTO Install a digital camera|Install a digital camera with UDEV]]
- [[HOWTO Orinoco USB|Get your Orinoco USB device working]]
- [[HOWTO Wacom Tablet|Setting up a Wacom Tablet]]
- [[HOWTO iRiver|Using an iRiver with Gentoo]]
- [[HOWTO Xbox 360 controller on Linux]]
- [[HOWTO Logitech Gamepad]]
- [[HOWTO Delorme EarthMate GPS LT-20]]
Virtualization
Miscellaneous
- Acovea — Getting the most out of your processor
- Set up a Car Computer
- [[HOWTO iPod Shuffle|iPod Shuffle]]
- [[HOWTO Update iPod Firmware|Update iPod Firmware]]
- [[HOWTO Remove PAM|Remove PAM]]
- [[HARDWARE Using an iPod|Use an iPod with Gentoo]]
- [[HOWTO Make your system use unicode/utf-8|Using Unicode and UTF-8]]
- [[HOWTO PDA-PIM|PDA-PIM]] - Gentoo's PDA/PIM Guide
- [[Regex|Guide to understanding regular expressions]]
- [[HOWTO Fix Grub it can't find a kernel]]
- [[HOWTO PDA]]
- [[HOWTO PSP]]
- [[HOWTO Send emails with shell scripts]]
- [[HOWTO Syncing Time via internet|HOWTO Sync your system-clock via internet (without NTP)]]
- [[HOWTO run only free software]] very useful for non x86 architectures
- [[HOWTO run Proprietary software]] you don't trust proprietary software do you?
- [[HOWTO File Compression|File Compression]] — How to compress and decompress files
- [[Computers system monitoring|HOWTO monitoring computers]] — monitoring physical, systems and network parameters, use rrdtool and apache.
Learning and Teaching Gentoo
- [[HOWTO Plan, setup and run a high school Gentoo Club|Plan, setup and run a high school Gentoo Club]]
- [[HOWTO run a Gentoo Install Competition|run a Gentoo Install Competition]]
Build a Gentoo High Performance Cluster
- [[HOWTO Configure Gentoo Linux for Clustering]]
- [[HOWTO MPI Programming]]
- [[HOWTO Torque/Maui - grid scheduler and resource manager]]
Networks & Services
Apache Related
''See: [[Index:Apache2]]''
- [[Apache2 Install|HOWTO Install Apache2]]
- [[HOWTO Apache Ant and Jakarta Tomcat]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 and Drupal]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 and MAMBO]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 with PHP MySQL]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 with perl]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 and Tomcat5]]
- [[HOWTO Apache 2 bandwidth limiting|HOWTO Apache2 Bandwidth Limitations]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 and mod ftpd]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 and mod auth ldap]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 with WordPress]]
- [[HOWTO Apache2 with BASE]]
- [[HOWTO cacert.org SSL certificates]]
- [[HOWTO install Gnu Mailman]]
- [[HOWTO PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneously]]
- [[HOWTO PHP-Java Bridge]]
- [[Streamlining your web server]]
- [[Apache chroot: the mod security way]]
- [[HOWTO Apache VirtualHost by IP Address]]
- [[Netegrity install]]
Bluetooth
- HOWTO Host to Host Bluetooth
- Configure a Bluetooth network access point
- [[HOWTO Access the internet with your cellphone and bluetooth (UMTS/GPRS)]]
- Use a Bluetooth headset
- Use a Bluetooth mouse
IrDA
- [[HOWTO mobile phone connected with IrDA]]
Mail Servers
- [[HOWTO Install Kerio Mailserver]]
- [[Courier ssl|HOWTO Enable SSL on Courier IMAP]]
- [[HOWTO Small Email Server with Postfix with POP3 (TLS)]]
- [[QmailRocksOnGentoo]] - Install Qmail on Gentoo without MySQL (QmailRocks semi-based)
- [[HOWTO Setup QMAIL RELAY-CTRL VPOPMAIL]]
- [[HOWTO Setup a Virtual Postfix/Courier Mail System with PostfixAdmin]]
- [[HOWTO Setup QMAIL VPOPMAIL and Other Mail Servers|HOWTO Setup QMAIL, VPOPMAIL & Other Mail Servers]]
- [[HOWTO Spam Filtering with Gentoo, Postfix, Amavis]]
- [[HOWTO Spam Filtering with DSPAM and Postfix]]
- [[HOWTO Postfix-LDAP virtual users with qmail schema|HOWTO Postfix Ldap Virtual with Qmail Schema + Courier + Sasl2]]
- [[HOWTO Fetch mails from multiple POP/IMAP-mailboxes and export them via IMAP to Thunderbird/SquirrelMail etc]]
- [[HOWTO Install Courier with maildrop and ClamAV and SpamAssassin]]
- [[HOWTO Email: A Complete Virtual System]]
- [[HOWTO Email System for the Home Network|HOWTO Email System for the Home Network (Part 1)]]
- [[HOWTO Email System for the Home Network Part 2|HOWTO Email System for the Home Network (Part 2)]]
- [[HOWTO Email Virtual Hosting with Courier and MySQL]]
- [[HOWTO Email Virtual Server Maildrop and Spam Assasin]]
- [[HOWTO Email Virus Scanner — MPP]]
- [[HOWTO Email Virus Scanner — Mailscanner]]
- [[maildrop configuration|HOWTO Configure Maildrop]]
Database Management Systems
- [[HOWTO Configure Postgresql|HOWTO Configure PostgreSQL]]
- [[HOWTO MySQL]]
- [[HOWTO Backup MySQL]]
- [[HOWTO Samba with Mysql]]
- [[HOWTO Setup mysql virtual hosting]]
Diskless
- [[HOWTO Diskless X terminal with read-only root]]
- [[HOWTO network boot without write access on server]]
- [[HOWTO diskless in a heterogeneous environment]] (Network with many different kinds of hardware)
- Diskless: Unionfs. Why not?
Content Management Systems
- [[HOWTO Dragonfly CMS (Content Management System)]]
- [[HOWTO Plone]]
- [[HOWTO Alfresco]]
- Maintain a VL web server running Joomla
IRC
- [[HOWTO Eggdrop]]
- [[HOWTO psyBNC]]
- [[HOWTO ircd-hybrid]]
- [[HOWTO identd using oidentd]]
General
- [[HOWTO IP Aliasing]]
- [[HOWTO IPv6]]
- [[HOWTO ISDN]]
- [[HOWTO ISDN Alt]]
- [[HOWTO MISDN]]
- [[HOWTO Parallel Port Network]]
- [[HOWTO Packet Shaping|HOWTO Packet Shaping & QoS Bandwidth Management]]
- [[accessfs|HOWTO Accessfs - ports <1024 for non-root]]
- [[HOWTO Xilinx]]
- [[HOWTO Zabbix]]
- [[HOWTO Cisco device logging]]
- HOWTO Add a VL server to a windows network
- [[HOWTO quick routing]]
- [[HOWTO TCP Tuning]]
- [[HOWTO Own Free domain]]
LAN
- [[HOWTO print winserver|HOWTO Print WinServer]]
- [[HOWTO setup a home-server|HOWTO Setup a Home Server]]
- [[HOWTO D-Link DP-100 HW Printerserver|HOWTO Use a D-Link Print Server]]
- [[HOWTO Serving Mac]]
- HOWTO Setup a VL Bridge
- [[HOWTO setup a corporate Gentoo server]]
- [[HOWTO setup a File Server]]
- [[HOWTO The Home Network for Beginners]]
- [[HOWTO squid/squidGuard]]
- [[Synergy|Control your computers over a LAN using Synergy]]
- [[HOWTO add a static route]]
- [[HOWTO static ip with dhcp router]]
- [[HOWTO Network profiles with arping]]
Network Filesystems
- HOWTO Share Directories Using AFP
- HOWTO Share Directories Using NFS
- [[Network File Transfer Protocols and Filesystems#SHFS|HOWTO Share Directories Using SHFS]]
- [[HOWTO Adding a Samba Server into an existing AD Domain|HOWTO Adding a SAMBA Server Into an Existing AD Domain]]
- [[HOWTO Implement Samba as your PDC]]
- [[HOWTO Setup Samba|HOWTO setup Samba for client and server use.]]
- [[HOWTO NFSv4]]
- [[HOWTO iFolder]]
- [[HOWTO aoe|HOWTO Setup ata over ethernet]]
- [[HOWTO LDAP SAMBA PDC|HOWTO Setup a LDAP based Samba PDC]]
- [[HOWTO Webdav Mount|HOWTO Mount a WebDAV share as a filesystem]]
- [[HOWTO Access NFS via SFU|HOWTO Access an NFS share from Windows using SFU]]
Modems
- [[HOWTO Install a modem that uses the eagle-usb software]]
- [[HOWTO Speedtouch modem]]
- [[HOWTO Alcatel Speedtouch modem]]
- [[HOWTO slmodem]]
- [[HOWTO Huawei E630 HSDPA Data card]]
P2P
- [[HOWTO giFT p2p]]
- [[HOWTO Setup A Bittorrent Tracker]]
- [[HOWTO qsubmit|HOWTO use qsubmit (for MLdonkey)]]
- [[Rtorrent with xmlrpc on lighttpd]]
PPP
- [[HOWTO Setup a Dialup Connection]]
- [[HOWTO connect to the internet via ppp and sprint pcs|HOWTO Connect Using PPP & Sprint PCS]]
- [[HOWTO PPPoA ADSL with a Conexant Accessrunner PCI modem]]
- [[HOWTO PPTP tunnels with kernel 2.6|HOWTO PPP Tunneling & Kernel 2.6]]
- [[HOWTO Set up a vpn client with mppe encryption|HOWTO Setup a VPN Client Using MPPE Encryption]]
- [[HOWTO PPTP VPN client (Microsoft-compatible with mppe)]]
- [[HOWTO PPTP Internet]]
- [[HOWTO Tivo PPP Gateway|HOWTO TiVo PPP Gateway]]
- [[HOWTO Connect using PPPoE]]
- [[HOWTO Connect using Sprint PCS Merlin S620 EVDO]]
Routing
- [[HOWTO DNAT+SNAT+OpenVPN+iproute2: routing setup]]
Security & Anonymity
- [[HOWTO OpenSwan 2.6 kernel]]
- [[HOWTO Shorewall Firewall IPsec VPN and 2.6 kernel]]
- [[HOWTO OpenVPN RoadWarrior]]
- [[HOWTO OpenVPN primer]]
- [[Freeradius]]
- [[HOWTO IPSEC|HOWTO IPsec]]
- [[HOWTO Anonymity with Tor and Privoxy|HOWTO Anonymity with TOR & Privoxy]]
- [[HOWTO Anonymity with Tor on the web|HOWTO Anonymity with TOR on the Web]]
- [[HOWTO Freenet]]
- [[HOWTO Iptables for newbies|HOWTO Iptables (Firewall) for Beginners]]
- [[HOWTO setup PHP-Syslog-NG|HOWTO Setup PHP-Syslog-ng]]
- [[HOWTO Port Knocking]]
- [[HOWTO BlockHosts|HOWTO Protect SSHD (and others) with BlockHosts]]
- [[HOWTO Protect SSHD with DenyHosts]]
- [[HOWTO Protect SSHD with Swatch]]
- [[HOWTO fail2ban|HOWTO Protect SSHD (and others) from bruteforce attacks with fail2ban]]
- [[HOWTO sshdfilter|HOWTO Protect SSHD from bruteforce attacks with sshdfilter]]
- [[HOWTO Snort]]
- [[HOWTO Aircrack WEP]]
- [[HOWTO IDS]]
- [[HOWTO NIDS]]
- [[HOWTO Snoop terminal session]] # Should not be in Security & Anonymity section. Maybe 4.5 General instead.
- [[HOWTO Skeys]]
- [[HOWTO autossh and knockd]]
- [[HOWTO SSH without a password]]
- [[HOWTO Nocat]]
- [[HOWTO put dnsmasq in a chroot jail]]
- [[HOWTO Setup a VPN with tinc]]
- [[HOWTO Encrypted Backup System Using Bacula and GnuPG]]
- [[HOWTO SELinux]]
- [[HOWTO Null Selinux on non-SELinux profile]]
- [[HOWTO Understand SELinux]]
- [[HOWTO DoD CAC]]
- [[HOWTO VPN over SSH and tun]]
Services
- [[HOWTO Apple ITunes Server|HOWTO Apple iTunes Server]]
- [[HOWTO Confixx3]]
- [[HOWTO CVS Server]]
- [[HOWTO Distcc server on Windows|HOWTO DistCC Server on Microsoft Windows]]
- [[HOWTO Setup a Dynamic DNS with an Updating Daemon]]
- [[HOWTO Dynamic DNS]]
- [[HOWTO Dynamic DNS with EveryDNS]]
- [[HOWTO Download Cache for LAN-Http-Replicator|HOWTO Download Cache for LAN-HTTP-Replicator]]
- [[HOWTO FAX Server]]
- [[HOWTO vsftpd]]
- [[HOWTO Gentoo and INND]]
- [[HOWTO Halflife Dedicated Server (CounterStrike)]]
- [[HOWTO Icecast OGG and MP3 streaming|HOWTO Icecast OGG & MP3 Streaming]]
- [[HOWTO Salem Radio Labs Rivendell Streaming Radio]]
- [[HOWTO Install Openbravo ERP]]
- [[HOWTO Install Oracle 10g]]
- [[HOWTO Install Oracle 10g Express Edition]]
- [[HOWTO Install Roundcube]]
- [[HOWTO Jabberd2 Server Setup]] - how to set up a jabberd2 server with transports
- [[HOWTO Juniper SSL Network Connect VPN]] - Howto setup the Juniper SSL "Network Connect" VPN
- [[HOWTO secure OpenLDAP network]]
- [[HOWTO Lighttpd]]
- [[HOWTO Local Rsync Mirror]]
- [[HOWTO Sybase ASE 12.5.2]]
- [[HOWTO NTP]]
- [[HOWTO NTP Using OpenNTPD]]
- [[HOWTO OpenGroupware.org with OpenLDAP]]
- [[HOWTO OpenVPN Server for Ethernet Bridging with Server Certificates]]
- [[HOWTO OpenVPN primer|HOWTO OpenVPN Primer]]
- [[HOWTO Road Warriors with OpenVPN]]
- [[HOWTO OpenVPN Linux Server Windows Client]]
- [[OsCommerce]]
- [[HOWTO PHP 5 with PEAR]]
- [[HOWTO ProFTPD]]
- [[HOWTO PureFTPD with MySQL Auth and PhpMyAdmin|HOWTO PureFTPD using MySQL Auth & PhpMyAdmin]]
- [[HOWTO PureFTPD, MySQL Authenticaton and Usermanager]]
- [[HOWTO SFTP Server (chrooted, without shell)|HOWTO SFTP Server (Chrooted Without Shell)]]
- [[HOWTO SNMP and MRTG Made Easy|HOWTO SNMP & MRTG Made Easy]]
- [[HOWTO Set a timeout for DHCPCD]]
- [[HOWTO Setup a DNS Server with DJBDNS]]
- [[HOWTO Setup a DNS Server with BIND]]
- [[HOWTO Subversion]]
- [[HOWTO SysCP]]
- [[HOWTO Use Snort, Acid, and MySQL Effectively|HOWTO Use SNORT, ACID & MySQL Effectively]]
- [[HOWTO Install OS-SIM : Open Source Security Information Management]]
- [[HOWTO Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers]]
- [[HOWTO Tunnel VNC over ssh]]
- [[HOWTO TWiki]]
- [[HOWTO use cron]]
- [[HOWTO Unrealircd]]
- [[HOWTO Linux Virtual Server]]
- [[HOWTO yaa]]
- [[HOWTO Rancid]] - Install Rancid for Config Archival
- [[HOWTO Setup UPnP with IPTables]]
- [[HOWTO Use MRTG with a Linksys Router]]
- [[HOWTO Setup NIS]]
- HOWTO Mount a Virtual Filesystem (ftp, or ssh)
- [[HOWTO setup DHCP]]
- [[HOWTO business]] - Install services for a company in order to have good tools for working (such as ooo,wayback-filesystem…)
- [[HOWTO ACCESS ISA PROXY|HOWTO Access ISA Proxy]]
- [[HOWTO Install Nagios]]
- [[HOWTO Install Hula Mailserver]]
- [[HOWTO VerliHub]]
- [[HOWTO LDAP auth and SUDO]]
- [[HOWTO Wildfire with LDAP]] - a full featured Jabber server
- [[HOWTO Darwin Streaming Server]]
High Availability and Failover
- [[HOWTO Setup IP failover with UCARP]]
- [[HOWTO Setup Bonded ethernet adapters]]
Wireless LAN
- Configure Wireless Network
- [[HOWTO Building a Wireless Access Point]]
- [[HOWTO Wireless Configuration and Startup]]
- [[HOWTO WPA Enterprise with MySQL|HOWTO WPA Enterprise (WPA/RADIUS) with MySQL]]
- [[HOWTO Wireless Configuration for RT2500 cards]]
- [[HOWTO Wireless Configuration for TUE]]
Portage
''See Also: [[Index:TIP#Portage|Portage Tips]]''
- [[Advanced Emerge World]]
- [[HOWTO Doing a huge emerge system - emerge world]]
- [[HOWTO change CHOST relatively safely]]
- [[HOWTO Create an Updated Ebuild]]
- [[HOWTO Create A Build Host]]
- [[HOWTO Distcc over SSH with Portage]]
- [[HOWTO Emerge on very slow systems]]
- [[HOWTO etc-update]]
- [[HOWTO etc-proposals]]
- [[HOWTO Gensync]]
- [[HOWTO ICC and Portage]]
- [[HOWTO Installing 3rd Party Ebuilds]]
- [[HOWTO Install Deltup|HOWTO Reduce Downloading Time with Deltup]]
- [[HOWTO Resume a deltup download]]
- [[HOWTO Maintain Gentoo - "Best Practices"]]
- [[HOWTO pkgcore quickstart guide]]
- [[HOWTO Portage Fetch With Download Accelerator]]
- [[HOWTO Setup local Portage and Package Mirror]]
- [[HOWTO Use dijjer for portage]]
- [[HOWTO Use Portage alternative - Paludis]]
- [[HOWTO Use Portage alternative - pkgcore]]
- [[HOWTO Use Portage Correctly]]
- [[HOWTO Using a shared portage via NFS|HOWTO Using a Shared Portage Via NFS]]
- [[HOWTO VERY small Portage Tree with SquashFS and UnionFS]]
- [[HOWTO Write Ebuilds]]
Software
Desktop
- [[HOWTO AntiVir Installation]]
- [[HOWTO AVG Free antivirus with on-access scanner]]
- [[HOWTO Beagle]]
- [[HOWTO Evidence]]
- [[HOWTO f-spot]]
- [[HOWTO Flash 9 and Firefox|HOWTO Flash 9 & Firefox]]
- [[HOWTO Install Firescape]]
- [[HOWTO GNUstep]]
- [[HOWTO iFolder client v2]] - version 2 (Prop)
- [[HOWTO iFolder client]] - version 3 (OSS)
- [[HOWTO Java and Firefox|HOWTO Java & Firefox]]
- [[HOWTO Looking Glass]]
- [[HOWTO Synchronize PocketPC and Evolution]]
- [[HOWTO Skin the Lock/Unlock Dialog in XScreenSaver]]
- [[Windows,linux,portage equivalents]]
- [[HOWTO Editing OpenDesktop Menus]] - e.g. KDE-Menu, Gnome-Menu, so called "Root-menu"…
- [[HOWTO Skype]]
- [[HOWTO Remove Gnome]]
- [[HOWTO Transition, Move, Migrate, Switch Thunderbird from Windows to Linux with Enigmail]]
- [[HOWTO Record your screen (screencasting) with vnc2swf]]
Multimedia
- [[HOWTO D-BUS, HAL, KDE media:/]]
- [[HOWTO NSV on Linux|HOWTO Decode NSV on Linux]]
- [[HOWTO DVD-Ripping]]
- [[HOWTO DVD to VCD]]
- [[HOWTO Mencoder Introduction Guide]]
- [[HOWTO Use MythTV]]
- [[HOWTO RealPlayer10Gold|HOWTO RealPlayer 10 Gold]]
- [[HOWTO Rip Streams With MPlayer|HOWTO Rip Streams with MPlayer]]
- [[HOWTO Video Disk Recorder (VDR)]]
- [[HOWTO Install Lsongs]]
- [[HOWTO VLC]]
- [[HOWTO mplayerplug-in]]
- [[HOWTO mplayerplug-in and Opera-browser]]
- [[HOWTO MPlayer]]
- [[HOWTO MPlayer on Framebuffer]]
- [[HOWTO Rip DVD mencoder|Rip a DVD to MPEG-4 using MEncoder]]
- [[HOWTO Dolby Digital and DTS]]
- [[HOWTO Optimize Multimedia Support]]
- [[HOWTO AlienBBC on Slimserver]]
- [[HOWTO Make mplayerplug-in work with Opera]]
- [[HOWTO DVD-Slideshow]]
Audio
- Asterisk — PBX System
- [[HOWTO Convert from iTunes]] - How to move your iTunes library to Linux, and unprotect it.
- Play M4P Audio Files - Play m4p/m4a audio files
- [[HOWTO From Winamp to XMMS]]
- [[HOWTO rip mp3s]]
- [[HOWTO Largefile Sound Recording and Cutting]]
- [[HOWTO XMMS2]]
- [[HOWTO ALSA and TeamSpeak on amd64]]
- [[HOWTO MPD]]
- [[Linuxsampler]]
Server
- [[HOWTO Open-Xchange]]
- [[HOWTO User Mode Linux]]
- [[HOWTO Watchdog Timer]]
- [[HOWTO GLFTPD]]
- HOWTO Use Vim effectively
- [[HOWTO Install Bugzilla]] Using Bugzilla for fun and profit.
- [[HOWTO Trac]]
- [[HOWTO Install VMWare Server]]
- [[HOWTO OpenID Mediawiki extension]]
- [[HOWTO Install Fedora Directory Server]]
Compiling
- Building packages for the VL repository
- [[HOWTO Compile Kernel With Distcc and CCache]]
- [[HOWTO use ccache and distcc with scons build tool using the Gentoo environment]]
- [[HOWTO Setup An ICECREAM Compile Cluster]]
Gaming
- [[HowTo Install Continuum]]
Other
- [[HOWTO Convert LaTeX to HTML with MathML]]
- [[HOWTO Convert Microsoft LIT to Palm DOC (pdb)]]
- [[HOWTO TeX]] - Get started with (La)TeX and basic TeX TeXnics
- [[HOWTO installing Anjuta2|HOWTO Installing Anjuta2]]
- [[HOWTO Panorama photography tools]]
- [[HOWTO read raw camera images|HOWTO Read raw camera images]]
- [[HOWTO transfer from mbox to gmail|HOWTO Transfer mbox to gmail]]
- [[HOWTO Open sources alternatives]] Open source alternative to closed source drivers,programs,firmware…, useful for non x86 architectures
- [[HOWTO GnuPG]]
- [[How-To Install Open for Businesses on SME Server|HOWTO Install Open for Business on SME Server]]
- [[HOWTO Install Gazebo/Player/Stage]]
- [[HOWTO POP3 Thru Freepops]]
- [[HOWTO Catalyst Framework]] - the elegant Perl MVC web framework
- [[HOWTO RHIDE - the best text-based Integrated Development IDE|HOWTO RHIDE]] - A text-based Integrated Development IDE
- [[HOWTO Migrate to Gmail]]
- [[HOWTO Install Oracle Developer Suite 10g]]
- [[HOWTO Install Autodesk Maya 8.5]]
- [[HOWTO mandarintools dimsum|Chinese Mandarin Tools DimSum]]
- [[HOWTO Install Eric4 Snapshot]]
- [[Cruise control|HOWTO Cruise Control]] - A Java based automated build system.
- [[HOWTO Setup Netbeans and Tomcat]]
- [[Electronic Design Automation|HOWTO Installing Commercial Electronic Design Automation Tools (FPGA/ASIC)]]
System Related
General
- [[HOWTO Backup]]
- [[HOWTO Manage services and runlevels via a modern GUI]]
- [[HOWTO create a run level|HOWTO Create a Run Level]]
- [[HOWTO DOS emulation|DOS emulation]]
- [[HOWTO Initng]]
- [[HOWTO Use Hpasm]]
- [[HOWTO Make an rc script|HOWTO Make RC Scripts]]
- [[HOWTO Migrate to GCC 3.4]]
- [[HOWTO RTAI and COMEDI on 2.6 Kernel|HOWTO RTAI & COMEDI Using Kernel 2.6]]
- [[HOWTO ADEOS-based RTAI/fusion on Gentoo]]
- [[HOWTO ADEOS-IPIPE and Xenomai]]
- [[HOWTO Xenomai 2.1.x Branch]]
- [[HOWTO ICC and Portage]]
- [[HOWTO Create an UTF-8 enabled system]]
- [[HOWTO Recover from "emerge —unmerge gcc"]]
- [[HOWTO cvs home dir]] - Archive your home directory
- [[HOWTO Merge OpenSceneGraph]]
- [[HOWTO Migrate to GCC 4.1]]
- [[HOWTO gcc4]]
- [[HOWTO prefetch files on boot]]
- [[HOWTO Create a DOS boot disk]]
- [[HOWTO Create a DOS boot USB flash drive]]
- [[HOWTO Optimise glibc]]
- [[HOWTO Logwatch]]
- Clone a VL system
- [[Syslog-ng|HOWTO Syslog-ng]]
File Systems
- HOWTO Automatically Mount Filesystems (AUTOFS)
- [[HOWTO Convert Filesystems]]
- TrueCrypt
- [[HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS]]
- [[HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using EncFS]]
- [[HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using LUKS and pam_mount]]
- [[HOWTO Find broken links]]
- [[SWAP ERASE on halt|HOWTO Automatically overwrite your swap with zeros on halting your system]]
- [[HOWTO move, resize partitions]]
- [[HOWTO Mount Windows partitions (DOS, FAT,NTFS)]]
- [[HOWTO hfsplus]] kernel support, mkfs.hfsplus, fsck.hfsplus
- [[HOWTO NTFS write with Captive approach]]
- NTFS write with ntfs-3g
- [[HOWTO Update reiser4 partitions|HOWTO Update Reiser4 Partitions]]
- [[HOWTO Reiser4 With Gentoo-Sources]] Reiser4 on gentoo-sources 2.6.12-3
- [[HOWTO Use filesystem ACLs]]
- [[HOWTO Read-only root filesystem]]
- [[HOWTO clean /tmp]] tmpwatch, tmpreaper, tmpfs etc.:
- [[HOWTO Mount UFS partitions]]
- [[HOWTO GmailFS]] analog of Gmail Drive for Windows
- [[HOWTO use User Quota's]]
- [[HOWTO Truecrypt]]
- [[HOWTO OCFS2]]
Burning CDs/DVDs
- [[HOWTO ATAPI CD Burning|ATAPI CD Burning]] - Burning a CD
- Burn Encrypted DVDs - Mountable, encrypted DVD backups
- [[HOWTO Burn Encrypted Optical Media With Luks]] - Mountable, encrypted CDr/DVDr media
- [[HOWTO Create a DVD|Create a DVD]]
- [[HOWTO Create an Audio CD|Create an Audio CD]]
- [[HOWTO Packet Writing on CD-RW|Packet Writing on a CD-RW]] - Write to a CD like a filesystem
Users
- [[HOWTO chroot login|HOWTO CHROOT Login]]
- HOWTO Let a User Shutdown/Reboot
- Reset a Lost Root Password
- Remove User
X Server
GL Compositing
- [[HOWTO XGL]]
- [[HOWTO AIGLX]]
- [[HOWTO nVidia GL Desktop Effects]]
- [[HOWTO Metisse]]
Desktop Environments
- [[HOWTO Same look for QT, GTK 2 and GTK 1 apps]]
- [[HOWTO Entrance]]
- [[HOWTO GDM Sessions]]
- [[HOWTO Gdm setup|HOWTO Setup Gdm]]
- [[HOWTO Get rid of GTK 1.x]]
- [[HOWTO windowsDM|HOWTO look and feel of windows under a linux base]]
- [[Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK|HOWTO Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK]]
KDE
- [[HOWTO KMail gpg-agent kde]]
- [[HOWTO Update KDE 3.3 to KDE 3.4]]
- [[HOWTO ssh-agent the easy way]]
- [[HOWTO_Kmail_and_Spamassassin|HOWTO Secure Kmail (SpamAssassin and ClamAV)]]
- [[HOWTO Resize Images using ServiceMenus (right click)]]
- [[HOWTO Kmail and BitDefender]]
- [[HOWTO Integrate Firefox with KDE]]
- [[HOWTO OpenOffice with KDE]]
- [[HOWTO remove KDE]]
GNOME
- [[HOWTO Gnome Desktop for the End-User|Gnome Desktop for the End-User]]
- [[GNOME Admin Guide quick-n-dirty]]
- [[HOWTO Update to GNOME unstable|Update to GNOME unstable]]
- [[HOWTO Avoid GTK 1.2|Avoid GTK 1.2]]
- [[HOWTO Migrate from Xscreensaver to Gnome-Screensaver]]
Lightweight Desktops
- [[WindowMaker]]
- [[HOWTO_Openbox|Openbox]]
- [[HOWTO_Fluxbox|Fluxbox]]
- [[HOWTO_IceWM|IceWM]]
- [[HOWTO_FVWM|FVWM]]
- [[HOWTO_e17|Enlightenment DR17]]
- [[HOWTO_EvilWM|EvilWM]]
- [[HOWTO_RatPoison|Rat Poison]]
- [[Ion]]
Xfce
General
- [[HOWTO Activate Graphical login|HOWTO Activate Graphical Login]]
- [[HOWTO Autostart Programs]]
- [[HOWTO DRI with ATi Open-Source Drivers]]
- [[HOWTO Modular Xorg]]
- [[HOWTO Switch from XFree to Xorg|HOWTO Switch from XFree to X.Org]]
- [[HOWTO XFS and Custom Fonts]]
- [[HOWTO Xorg and Fonts|HOWTO X.Org & Fonts]]
- [[HOWTO Widescreen Resolutions (WSXGA)]]
- [[HOWTO Eliminate warning "(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm bios) (No such file or directory)"]]
- [[HOWTO Large Mouse Cursors]]
- [[HOWTO get 2 users on 1 pc]]
- [[HOWTO startx in a chroot]]
Window Managers
See the Window Manager Index
Hardware
- HOWTO Automatically turn off your monitor
- Dual Monitor Setup
- [[HOWTO Enabling Monitor Power Saver]]
- [[HOWTO Intel 855 andor 915 fix|HOWTO fix Intel 855/915 misbehaviour]]
- Advanced Mouse
- [[HOWTO Phone sync|HOWTO Phone Syncing]]
- [[HOWTO sync mobile phone with Gentoo|HOWTO Sync Nokia N-series Phones]]
- [[HOWTO Setup MythTV]]
- [[HOWTO Setup MythTV in Framebuffer]]
- [[HOWTO Separate x-screens on Monitor and TV|HOWTO Separate X-Screens on TV & Monitor]]
- Multimedia Keys
Network
- FreeNX Server - Accessing X11 over low-bandwidth connections
- HOWTO TIVO Wireless & Gentoo Firewall
- HOWTO Use VNC to connect to existing X Sessions
- X-forwarding Setup X-Forwarding for use in ssh
- sftp command line completion Enable command line completion in sftp
- XDMCP - X Display Manager Control Protocol
- HOWTO XVNC Terminal Servers
Gaming
- [1.6 With WINE]
- HOWTO Play Doom (not Doom3)
- [[HOWTO Setup A UT2004 Dedicated Server]]
- [[HOWTO UT2004]]
- [[HOWTO Joystick Setup]]
- [[HOWTO Running Old Loki Games]]
- [[HOWTO Chess]]
- minimize fullscreen-Games
- [[HOWTO ePSXe]]
- [[HOWTO Zboard]]
Wine & Cedega
- [[HOWTO Install games in winex without switching CDs (through image mounting)|HOWTO Use WineX & CD Image Mounting]]
- [[HOWTO Install Cedega]]
- Wine
- [[HOWTO Install and update World Of Warcraft with wine]]
- [[HOWTO Install and update World Of Warcraft with Cedega]]
- [[HOWTO Wine/Cedega Games]]
- [[HOWTO Install GoogleEarth with wine]] - Outdated, linux version in portage
- [[HOWTO Install StarCraft with wine]]
- [[HOWTO Install Internet Explorer 6 SP1]]
- [[HOWTO Ebooks]]
- [[HOWTO RUN Need for Speed Most Wanted with Cedega]]
- [[HOWTO wine-games Installation]]
- [[HOWTO Run Powergrab]]
- [[HOWTO Ventrilo Via Wine]]
- [[Watchtower Library 2005|HOWTO Watchtower Library 2005]]
- [[photoshop|HOWTO photoshop]]
Specific to non-x86 architecture
- [[HOWTO Gentoo on MAC OSX Bootstrap|HOWTO Gentoo on Mac OS X]]
- [[HOWTO Install Firefox with java on amd64]]
- [[HOWTO Install Gentoo on an Apple iBook]]
- [[HOWTO setup gentoo on a pda or embedded system|HOWTO setup Gentoo on a PDA or embedded system]]
- [[HOWTO Use prefixed portage (in development)]]
Emulators
(This page is strongly based on the Gentoo wiki)
page revision: 12, last edited: 04 Jun 2007 03:38