This post is a reminder to myself more than it is intended for anyone else. Well, that’s most of this blog. Gentoo is a great distribution of Linux, but you have to install everything yourself. This is a good thing, because you get a very lean system, but the downside is that you are re-inventing the wheel somewhat with every install. So, without further ado, here is my current favorite configuration:
Global USE flags: X cups dbus hal jpeg png gs dvi gif tiff mpeg bzip2 gtk lapack tetex -gnome -kde
Package list (basic software):
- dbus (message bus system)
- hal (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
- gentoolkit
- vim/gvim
- x.org
- xfce4
- thunar
- mozilla-firefox
- acroread
Package list (technical software):
- blas-atlas
- lapack-reference
- numpy (unstable 0.90.1)
- matplotlib (Matlab-like plotting package for Python)
- texlive (experimental, hard-masked)
- lyx
- evince (dvi, ps, pdf viewer)
- paraview (3D visualization of datasets, unstable)