About Daniel Robbins

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• What I'm Up To: Senior Principal at E*TRADE Financial. Various Open Source projects.
• Bio: Daniel Robbins is the founder of the Gentoo community and creator of the Gentoo Linux operating system. Daniel resides in New Mexico with his wife Mary and two energetic daughters, and serves as Senior Principal as part of E*TRADE Financial's architecture team. In the past, Daniel has served as a member of Microsoft's Platform Technology Strategy team in Redmond, WA, where he contributed to Microsoft's Shared Source strategy and Linux interoperability efforts. In addition, Daniel is also an accomplished author and technical writer, having written many technical articles published by IBM developerWorks, Intel Developer Services and C/C++ Users Journal. Oh, and Daniel has a blog.

Articles and Tips

NEWLY ADDED: Partitioning in Action

• Partitioning 1: Moving /home
• Partitioning 2: Consolidating /var and /tmp

Tips:

• TIP: Prompt Magic - Colorizing your shell prompt

Funtoo Filesystem Guide
This series was originally called Advanced Filesystem Implementor's Guide and was published on IBM developerWorks. This new version has been updated to be curent as of May 2007.

• FFG Part 1: Journaling and ReiserFS
• FFG Part 2: Using ReiserFS and Linux
• FFG Part 3: Tmpfs and bind mounts
• FFG Part 4: Introducing Ext3

Software Projects

• Funtoo Stage tarballs - updated 2x/week! Gentoo stage tarballs (for 32-bit: x86 (x86, i686, athlon-xp, pentium4, core32 / 64-bit: amd64, core64). These stage tarballs are current stable builds of Gentoo built using a current official Gentoo Portage snapshot and are all built from the ground up. That means that if you use one of these stage3 tarballs to install Gentoo, you will save a lot of time since the system should not need to emerge much if anything when you type "emerge -u system". Enjoy them and please send me your feedback :)
• OpenVZ is a high-performance, light-weight Open Source Linux virtualization technology. It allows you to run many (even hundreds) of independent instances of Linux on a single physical machine. I am working on helping Gentoo users take advantage of OpenVZ. I now have up-to-date OpenVZ templates for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures available at http://www.funtoo.org/linux/openvz. These templates are updated 2x/week! :)
• Gentoo Linux is an extremely configurable and powerful version of Linux that I created. I call it a meta-distribution because it allows you to build up a highly-optimized system that is set up exactly the way you want it - with all the stuff you need and without all the bloat you don't want. Recommended for developers and power users.
• Sabayon Linux is a cutting-edge desktop-oriented Linux distribution that is essentially a customized version of Gentoo. It is very easy to install and comes pre-loaded with the latest applications, games and technologies, including accelerated 3D graphics drivers and desktop eye-candy. Recommended for those who want a cutting-edge desktop experience.
• Keychain is a handy script that I created that allows easy passwordless logins via ssh and management of ssh RSA/DSA keys. Keychain runs on many different Linux/BSD/Unix flavors. It is currently maintained by Aron Griffis and and you can read more about it at the Keychain Gentoo project page. The latest version of keychain can be found here: keychain-2.6.8.tar.bz2