default should be 8k stacks, and the nvidia drivers dont work well if at all
   with  4k  stacks.  This  info should be displayed at the end of emerge
   nvidia-kernel.

   On a little side note, ever since I've switched from xfree86 to xorg and
   from kernel 2.4 to 2.6.8, my framerate in Quake3 Urban Terror has increased
   by 20+-30+fps. Dont know if your a gamer, but I thought that was pretty
   cool.
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Gentoo: samba

   Robert Krig ([89]rkrig from gmx.de)

   As  far  as  samba  problems  are  concerned,  have  you  tried  using
   LinNeighborhood? Using that program, I have no problems mounting windows
   shares.

emerge LinNeighborhood

   You mentioned that when you mount a samba share, then you are denied access.
   Have you tried accessing them as root? Still, in case you havent yet, try
   LinNeighborhood.

   I have read somewhere that Window's samba implementation can be screwey
   depending on which version of windows it is. Some like scrambled passwords,
   some dont. I'm sure you can find more info on the net.

     Windows 95 didn't even have the ability to encrypt its passwords, later 98
     insisted on it (and wouldn't work without, unless you applied a patch to
     it).  With  other  mswin  versions  your  mileage may vary. "lanman
     compatibility" seemed to mean "mention the password twice on the wire, the
     really old way and whatever new way du jour" - so I recommend any mswin
     admins out there try to avoid that, you lose enough bandwidth as it is,
     and it doesn't really help samba any. -- Heather
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Gentoo: genkernel

   Robert Krig ([90]rkrig from gmx.de)

   A note on genkernel. It can be very screwey depending on your setup.

genkernel --menuconfig all

   this command will allow you to make modifcations to the default genkernel
   setup. Although I would still recommend to everyone to compile your own
   kernel.

     Building your own optimal kernel is not only a good way to learn more
     about linux but boot time usually feels a lot faster with generic support
     for things you don't even own left out entirely - since it never gets
     probed for anymore. Surely both knowledge and speed are a Good Thing for
     gentoo fans :) -- Heather
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Gentoo: be careful updating!

   Robert Krig ([91]rkrig from gmx.de)

   By the way. It is not recommended to blindly issue the "update all" portage
   command. Sometimes new stuff, can break some old stuff, and there have been
   plenty of cases where people simply did a emerge -u -deep world and found
   their system not working anymore. I find that the best way to update your
   system is to do a

emerge -upv -deep world.

   This will show me which packages COULD be updated and then I just manually
   upgrade from there. Very handy if for example a newer version of an app has
   been ported from gtk to gtk2 or to qt or whatever, and you dont want to
   compile all this extra stuff.

   Secondly, often enough when you update any packages, portage will tell you
   that you need to run etc-update in order to update the config files. Be VERY
   careful here as well. Since 90% of the time the only change to config file
   is  to  label  it  as "version x.x.x". However the process if not done
   carefully, will overwrite to specific config file with defaults. etc-update
   offers you options to manually select inside the file, what can be removed
   and what not, but its quite confusing to read. I would suggest, when it
   comes to etc-update, certain config files can be overwritten no problem,
   e.g. all the ones that you havent changed in any way. But always keep a
   current backup of all the configs that you edited. e.g. make.conf, smb.conf,
   rc.conf, lilo.conf, etc. I usually make copies, let etc-update overwrite
   them, and then manually copy+paste relevant stuff back into the new file.
   I'm sure there is a much better way to do this, and I recall that I read
   something about that in the forums. Either way, just letting you know to
   take care when etc-updating. But then again, I think its always wise not to
   blindly update everything as soon as it comes out. Unless its a much needed
   security fix.
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Gentoo: who was that Masked package?

   Robert Krig ([92]rkrig from gmx.de)

   Mike, in your article. You mentioned that the day before your install,
   [93]KDE3.3 came out and it was still in the "masked" section.

   Just to clear things up. Masked, does not automatically mean unstable, it