gentoo

What is the best Linux distro for System Programming?

I want to work with low level system programming and virtualization for my research. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 + Xen 4.0.0 but they weren't going quite well right from the installation. One of my friends suggested to take up Gentoo. Any more suggestions? ...

gentoo geoip installation

Hi experts, I try to install the geoip extension through SSH on my gentoo server. I did: emerge Geo-IP : OK pecl install geoip : OK geoiplookup www.bbc.co.uk : gives me GeoIP Country Edition: GB, United Kingdom GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1: GB, N7, Tadworth, (null), 51.283298, -0.233300, 0, 0 GeoIP City Edition, Rev 0: GB,...

Django/Mod_WSGI 'client denied by server configuration'

I'm attempting to set up Apache 2.2, Django 1.1.2 and Gentoo. I wish to serve my project with the address: /comics I followed the mod_wsgi directions in the django documentation to the letter, coming up with these files: /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_wsgi.conf <IfDefine WSGI> LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so </IfDefine> WS...

Desktop.el under emacsclient

Hi I am trying to use desktop functionality (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeskTop) in emacs. I added following code to my .emacs: (require 'desktop) (setq desktop-save t) (setq desktop-load-locked-desktop t) (setq *desktop-dir* (list (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/desktop"))) (setq desktop-base-file-name ".emacs.desktop") (setq deskt...

Problems upgrading APC 3.0.19 -> 3.1.4

On the gentoo Linux server I use, I've just upgraded APC from 3.0.19 to 3.1.4 and it appears as if something is not working properly there. It appears as if cache entries which should have been deleted (either explicitly or via TTL expiry) stay in place and so cache use keeps growing until it reaches the max usage memory and then the ser...