Category Archives: Linux

sudo and su are very different…

By Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku | Published: 2017 September 21

I have been trying to get my computer updated since Friday (almost a week) and I usually use a command like: sudo emerge -uDaNt @world When I want to do an update of my “world”. To me this should be very close, if not practically identical to: su password: emerge -uDaNt @world exit And I […]

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Setting up QEMU/KVM virtual machine…

By Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku | Published: 2017 September 4

This is an odd one.  I am in the midst of setting this up, but I am working on a few different things right now.  First, I needed to get QEMU/KVM up and running, so I looked at this page about setting things up for the Gentoo host.  This looks like it is “mostly correct” […]

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More notes on Gentoo install (cheatsheet stuff)…

By Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku | Published: 2017 August 15

When I last wrote about my process for getting my machine up and running I was getting the system updated to the latest version of software.  That was a while ago.  But there are a few more things that need to be done before the computer really is bootable, though I have found the order […]

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Gentoo Install Notes

By Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku | Published: 2017 August 7

I was working on installing gentoo on a new machine (that will eventually replace this machine I am typing this on) and I was going through the Gentoo Handbook and kept running into problems (I have (and will explain) figured them out) so kept having to go through the same steps and was looking to create […]

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