User:Y2kbug

Hello Gentoo-Wiki!

I’m a Gentoo user since release 1.4 in late 2003. A friend of mine recommended this (at that time) young distribution to me. I never regreted to follow his recommendation.

Since that time I installed Gentoo Linux as many times as necessary – only once on any of my computers that I use(d) since 2003. These are:


 * 1) A miditower that I assembled together all by myself: Intel Pentium III 600 MHz (Slot-1) on Gigabyte GA-6BXC with 384 MB RAM, bought sometime in the late 1990s. (Not in use anymore, but still available, although partly disassembled.)
 * 2) A laptop: IBM ThinkPad R51, Intel Pentium M 1,7 GHz with (upgraded) 2 GB RAM, newly bought 2004. (In use, but at my sisters’ for an unspecified period of time; she’s running Mac OS X on it. I made a complete system backup, but I doubt I can ever reuse this Gentoo Linux installation.)
 * 3) An Apple Power Mac G4 “Mirrored Drive Doors” (2002) Dual 1 GHz with upgraded 2 GB RAM – I got it in 2007. (In use, but at my sisters’ for an unspecified period of time; she’s running Mac OS X on it.)
 * 4) From April 2009 to early 2010 I had a new project: Apple Power Mac G5 “Late 2005” Dual Core (PowerPC 970MP) 2 GHz. (Had a faulty PSU in 2010; repaired. I gave it to my sister, but she kept the G4 for reserves.)
 * 5) An Apple Power Mac G4 “Quicksilver” (2001) with upgraded 1.5 GB RAM that I got in late 2009 from my sister in return for giving her the MDD. After my G5 broke down it was running the installation that I started from the MDD with minor modifications until 2011. (Not in use; I disassembled it partly to upgrade a Power Mac G4 Cube that runs Mac OS X.)
 * 6) My new miditower: bought and assembled by myself in August 2010:
 * 7) * Display: Fujitsu Scaleoview H22-1W (via HDMI)
 * 8) * Case: Sharkoon Rebel9 Pro Economy miditower
 * 9) * PSU: Corsair HX 850W ATX 2.3
 * 10) * Mainboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 (Am3)
 * 11) * CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz with Turbo Core), cooled by
 * 12) ** Scythe Mugen 2 and
 * 13) ** some Arctic Cooling Fans (case)
 * 14) * RAM: 16GB (4×4) PC3-10667U
 * 15) * GFX: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 1 GB GDDR5 PCIe (DVI, HDMI, DP) Works with Linux kernel 3.2.0-rc and newer, or with proprietary fglrx 11.9 and newer driver.
 * 16) * HDD: various SATA II and SATA 6Gb/s 3.5″ drives
 * 17) * DVD: LG GH24LS50 (SATA II)
 * 18) * Keyboard: Apple Alu USB keyboard (USB 2.0)
 * 19) * Mouse: Logitech MX300 Optical Mouse (USB 2.0)

I will try to participate with my experiences with these specific computers of mine.

How I can be reached:
 * try here →Talk

Cheers, ‣Andreas• ⚖ 09:31, 23 May 2010 (GMT)

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