Installing Gentoo Linux a pdf manual oriented towards beginners has recently been released. The book has a total of 119 pages and contains a lot of background information about installing Gentoo Linux. Pictures are also available to demonstrate the various concepts in the book. Look for more information at the The Professor And Pat website. Click here here a direct download link

Linux.com sports an interesting article today in which they describe how Gold Lasso uses Gentoo to power it’s e-mail marketing business. I found the following quote really interesting, which made me wonder is Gentoo one of the most secure distributions out there?

“One of our previous employees was into Gentoo, and made us believe that it is one of the most secure distributions out there,”

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Wine-Doors 1.0 has been released. Wine-Doors lets you seamlessly install Windows games and applications in Linux. While still at it’s infancy this project looks very promising. It sports an attractive GUI and has enough applications to choose from. Coupled with the enormous progress Wine has made recently, this could easily become the killer application to attract Windows refugees. You can download Wine-Doors from the developers website. Gentoo Linux user can find an ebuild here.

OpenMoko the world first freed phone is available now! OpenMoko is the geeks answer to the iphone hysteria. Imagine a phone with unlimited possibilities. A phone that in fact is a small portable PC, what would you do with it? Read ebooks? Listen to music without drm restrictions? Watch movies? Or install one of the 23067 possible software packages? Get yours at: www.openmoko.com

Gentoo is being used in serving financial applications for ultra-secure hosting in a former nuclear bunker.

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