Top 5

Just so you will know, emerge is the package management tool for Gentoo linux. It is “the command-line interface to the portage system” (from emerge man-pages).
On with my top-5:
#1 emerge –sync
This command synchronizes your local collection of packages with the latest sources available from Gentoo. You should sync your portage directory at least weekly. You [...]

I recently found this post. Being a Linux user and, looking around my house, i saw that this was going to be an easy post for me. So, here is my Top 5 uses for an old PC …. from a Linux users perspective

router ..install a couple or three NICs and a copy of IPCOP [...]