i see a lot of options here... default, and hardened... guessing hardened means increased security, i'm running a laptop, i intend to use KDE, whats confusing me is its got "def../10.0 *" "def.../selinux" "def.../desktop" def.../desktop/gnome" "def.../desktop/kde" no multilib and server.
i intend to use this laptop primarily to host a small teamspeak 3 server, terraria server, and possibly minecraft server aswell. but yes its a laptop, all the options say "desktop" i'd pick desktop/kde... but should i maybe be using server or jsut stay with the basic first profile for this? or should i perhaps go into the basic hardened one? i found the handbook doesn't really explain these things at all "just pick the appropriate one" none seems appropriate for me. the reason i figured picking server would be a bad idea is cus even if i'm using it to host some, its not a server computer and nowhere near half as powerful as even an old server computer, so i figured that might be bad.
Is there anywhere i can read about these things?
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I went with the basic hardened amd64 one... i'lll be satisfied as long as the system is gonna start, but i'd love if someone can help answer my question nontheless, i can always just reinstall this stuff if i'm unsatisfied. i don't even know what selinux is, or see a reason why i'd want to pick the developer profile, nor the point of no-multilib, what does it even do...
Problem: emerge --oneshot portage is giving me an error, and i can't seem to get the source to emerge either.everything works fine -solved- It seemed to dislike my "MAKEOPTS="-j3"" setting it to -j2 seems to work
(solved)Selecting the right portage profile on a laptop
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(solved)Selecting the right portage profile on a laptop
Last edited by rabcor on Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:10 pm, edited 3 times in total.
rabcor,
I would have suggested the desktop, desktop/gnome or desktop/kde to start with, but I'm sure you know what you're doing
Keep in mind that most of the required USE flags will be provided by the profile you select so there's no need to pile them up in make.conf or package.use
I would have suggested the desktop, desktop/gnome or desktop/kde to start with, but I'm sure you know what you're doing
Keep in mind that most of the required USE flags will be provided by the profile you select so there's no need to pile them up in make.conf or package.use
Good luck
Since installing gentoo, my life has become one long emerge
Since installing gentoo, my life has become one long emerge
For machines that offer services to untrusted users, the hardened family is a good idea. However, many of those protections are based on inserting extra code at compile time, so if you run proprietary software such as media-sound/teamspeak-server-bin, the protections from the hardened compiler will not fully apply to it. You will get some benefit from building the supporting open libraries (if any) with a hardened toolchain. You can also get some benefit from running a hardened kernel, whether or not you compile using a hardened compiler.
As an aside, do you need to use TeamSpeak for compatibility with users who insist on it? If not, you should look at media-sound/mumble for a client and media-sound/murmur for a server.
As an aside, do you need to use TeamSpeak for compatibility with users who insist on it? If not, you should look at media-sound/mumble for a client and media-sound/murmur for a server.