This monday: Webmin, Gentoo

[Bill Sconce]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 10:48pm, djberube at berubeconsulting.com wrote:
> > .... Gentoo - an awesome file manager. 
> 
>   I thought Gentoo was a distribution?


Indeed there is a Gentoo which is a distribution.

This isn't it.  This talk is about Gentoo-the-file-manager.  A two-pane
presentation of files with similarities to things like emelfm, with
some drag-and-drop capabilities, etc.  Compared to certain FMs (e.g.,
the desktop/Windows workalikes) Gentoo is breathtakingly lightweight.
And different, of course.

And very different from Gentoo the distribution.

-Bill


From
http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/
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"Gentoo the Linux distribution has nothing to do with gentoo the
file manager, except the latter runs on the former. I actually
used the name first of the two, way back in September 1998. I've
been in touch with the Gentoo folks, and we're cool."


"gentoo is a modern, powerful, flexible, and utterly configurable
file manager for UNIX systems, written using the GTK+ toolkit. It
aims to be 100% graphically configurable; there's no need to edit
config files by hand and then restart the application. gentoo is
somewhat inspired in its look & feel by the classic Amiga program
DirectoryOpus 4  (by GP Software), but is not  a "clone". gentoo
has been successfully tested on a variety of platforms, including
Linux (x86, Alpha, and PS2/MIPS), Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and
OpenBSD.

"gentoo was written by Emil Brink. The first lines of code were
entered in May 1998, with the first public release in September
of the same year. There have been over 60 releases since then."