Sven Vermeulen schrieb: > Patience is a good virtue... but I was also hoping for more input =) I'll > try to put up some additional topics soon (first finish working on my > floor), but we certainly need more input on this.
OK, with the update of gcc to 4.1, I worked again a lot with my Linux system and I stumbled about some things, which I always wanted to know more about. I do not know, if these topics are of interest or are already explained in some detail elsewhere: 1.) What's a kernel, what is inside of it and why (userland vs. kernel)? I read somewhere, that over 50% of the kernel are drivers. Why are they in the kernel and what's the rest? What is an initrd and when do you need it? As far as I know, the Linux kernel is not the only choice with Gentoo (BSD, Darwin, ?). What's the difference, advantages, disadvantages? I know this is quite general. 2.) What is behind system (of emerge system)? How does portage know, what packages are in system? I know, that the profiles define these, but how does it work? What's the impact of USE flags on the system packages? This is something I always wanted to know, but never really looked for, so if there is already a good doc about it, sorry for the spam. 3.) How to get rid of cruft files? I removed a lot of old packages, which I do not use anymore. By chance I found many files belonging to these deleted packages on my system, e.g. in /etc/env.d I found 02distcc. Another example are old kernel modules in /lib/modules and cleaning the portage tree. Are there good ways for finding these files? Just a thought: Some guides like the gcc upgrade guide are "quick solutions" to "specific problems". I think this fits quite good for the kbase, so perhaps all guides like this should be moved/transformed to the kbase? Cheers, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
