I am currently using both Linux and Windows with my iPod. So far, I have found iTunes to be far superior to any of the Linux applications for syncing songs to my iPod, so I usually dual boot into Windows for this purpose (which isn’t all that often these days, now that I’ve got a fair amount of songs on my iPod to get me started until I’ve had a chance to clean up the ID3 tags for the rest of my MP3 collection and rip my remaining CDs)....
After a bit of fiddling with masked ebuilds, I finally managed to get Bluetooth working with Gnome on my AMD64-based Gentoo system. In case you’re running into similar AMD64-related issues, please check out the following bugs I submitted to the Gentoo bug tracker: The following bug is also relevant: The HOWTO mobile phone, Bluetooth and GNOME Wiki page is also helpful. Note however that this is somewhat outdated. For example, the bluez-sdp package is deprecated and should no longer be used, as its functionality has been rolled into the other bluez packages....
I just moved the Subversion repository that I created on my Windows box some time ago over to my Gentoo box (actually the same box, just a different dual-boot OS, now that I’m phasing out Windows in favor of Gentoo Linux). This was a very smooth operation, and I’m pretty impressed with the way Gentoo’s Apache configuration already accounts for Subversion (which is generally exposed as a WebDAV repository using an extension of the Apache mod_dav module)....
Since I installed Gentoo Linux a few weeks ago, I have made it a habit to check the ATI website almost every day to see if a new driver has been released that supports my AMD64 processor as well as the XOrg (instead of XFree) server. The default driver works fine in 2D, but it does not support 3D acceleration. Today, my search was finally rewarded. Here is the updated ATI driver....
Here is a Great article on Gentoo Linux. It includes a lot of information about Gentoo’s package management system, including an overview of how to build your own or customize existing ebuild files. It also has some very interesting points on how a corporate environment could benefit from Gentoo, which is different from the usual preconception about Gentoo being better suited as a desktop OS. Of course most of the comments by other users on that page degrade into the usual Linux distro flame wars, but there are some interesting ones....