Portage

Portage is probably Gentoos most notable innovation in software management. With its high flexibility and enormous amount of features it is frequently seen as the best software management tool available for Linux. Portage is written in Python and Bash and therefore fully visible to the users as... Platforms: *nix

Porthole is a GTK-based front-end for Portage (the Gentoo package management system). It features a hierarchical view of packages and supports fast searches and dependency calculations. Porthole works mainly by running "emerge" commands in its own terminal window, and supports most emerge... Platforms: *nix

Kuroo is a graphical frontend to Portage that integrates into the K-Desktop-Environment and covers most common maintenance tasks on Portage based systems. Platforms: *nix

Portato is a GUI for the package manager of Gentoo and Sabayon - Portage. It is mostly written in Python for the GTK+-frontend, which is used in most Linux desktop environments (except KDE). As the current portage development is quite fast-paced, Portato is not able to keep step. Thus it might... Platforms: *nix

Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Thanks to a technology called Portage,... Platforms: *nix

remerge is a simple browser-based interface to Gentoo Linuxs Portage and Novells Red Carpet package management systems. It supports installation, uninstallation, and upgrading of many different packages. Whats New in This Release: - An installation script glitch was fixed.. Platforms: *nix

The GeCHI Overlay is a community driven gentoo portage overlay. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

lpr-bash is a replacement for the "lpr" command found in lpr(ng), CUPS, and other Unix printing systems. lpr-bash is implemented as a shell script. Originally designed to run on LinuxFromScratch, and later ported to gentoo, it should work with virtually any flavor of Linux or Unix, and maybe... Platforms: *nix

Conky is a light-weight system monitor. Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since its original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from its predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has... Platforms: *nix

Flagedit is a CLI USE flags and package keywords editor for Gentoo Linux. It lets you edit the USE flags of /etc/make.conf, as well as the /etc/portage/package.use file. Flagedit project also allows you to easily edit /etc/portage/package.keywords. Flagedit allows you to edit the use flags or... Platforms: *nix

Gentoox Linux is an adaptation of the popular source based Linux distribution called Gentoo. Gentoox Home retains all the features of the original (portage, sysvinit etc...) but has a patch system created from the ground up, by myself, which is specifically designed for Gentoox. "Magic" (as I... Platforms: *nix

GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks with the historical Unix directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no directories such as /usr and /etc. The main idea of the alternative hierarchy is to store all files belonging to an application in its own separate subtree;... Platforms: *nix

Goodgoat is an easy to use desktop that can run from a bootable cd or it can be installed to the hard drive. Goodgoat uses portage to handle updates for the installed version. I started goodgoat as an os for my low cost computer. I thought that the Linux I had created would be useful to other... Platforms: *nix

kfile_raw_patch package contains a patch against kdegraphics-3.5.5 enabling thumbnail images and exif meta data for raw images. Works also for kdegraphics-3.5.6 and 3.5.7. The plugin uses code from libkexiv2 and parts from rawimage. Installation: cd kdegraphics-3.5.5 patch -i... Platforms: *nix

ViewPortageX is a karamba theme written in Python and designed for every Gentooist out there! It parses gentoo.packages.org and gives you uptodate informations about the updates in the portage-tree. You can select an option to display packages you have installed on your system only. This way... Platforms: *nix

Silver Shield PM Control for Linux (formerly known as sispm_ctl) is an application enabling the use of the GEMBIRD SiS-PM device under Linux. The SiS-PM is an itelligent advanced surge protector with unique features: 4 sockets are manageable from the PC via USB port (GEMBIRD LTD). Silver... Platforms: *nix

Distcc Livecd is a small bootable cdrom that contains a uClibc Linux system, the GNU compiler and a distcc daemon. The purpose of this CD is to be able to borrow compile CPU power from computers without installing anything on the harddisk. The CD is build with the Gentoo portage framework.... Platforms: *nix

KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. KleanSweep can search for files basing on several criterias. You can seek for: - empty files - backup files - broken symbolic links - dead menu entries (.desktop files pointing to non-existing executables) - duplicated... Platforms: *nix

SabayonLinux is a live DVD designed to transform a computer into a powerful Gentoo Linux system in less than 5 minutes. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution powered by a software install manager engine called "Portage". Besides functioning as a live DVD, Sabayon Linux can also be installed on a... Platforms: *nix

Sabayon Linux is a live DVD designed to transform a computer into a powerful Gentoo Linux system in less than 5 minutes. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution powered by a software install manager engine called "Portage". Besides functioning as a live DVD, Sabayon Linux can also be installed on... Platforms: *nix