Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread cal
On 6/7/21 1:10 AM, n952162 wrote: > I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google > chrome os is based on gentoo. > > Does anybody have any experience with this? > > Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I > see that there's some

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 4:04 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > > several days under Windows, just in case there are any early problems. > > After that, it goes Gentoo. >

[gentoo-user] any news on chromium + Glibc?

2021-06-07 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH... It seems they're trying to fix it because the rate of version bumps of Chromium has decreased from several times a minute to maybe one every two weeks indicating that upstream is having significant issues. I've been updating

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/06/21 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>> You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine >>> to spread the load. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local >> binary server

[gentoo-user] Re: any news on chromium + Glibc?

2021-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-06-07, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:11 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2021-06-07, Alan Grimes wrote: >> >> > Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH... >> >> I wasn't aware there was a problem: there hasen't been any brokenness >> for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any news on chromium + Glibc?

2021-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:11 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2021-06-07, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH... > > I wasn't aware there was a problem: there hasen't been any brokenness > for me[1] (current running 91.0.4472.77 ). What's

[gentoo-user] PyCXX vs Python 3.9

2021-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
According to the pycxx README and to the pysvn devloper PyCXX 7.12 is not compatible with Python 3.9 because the tp_print field has been removed from one of the structures. My attempts to use PyCXX with Python 3.9 seem to confirm this. Is it a bug that the PyCXX ebuild allows it to be installed

[gentoo-user] Re: any news on chromium + Glibc?

2021-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-06-07, Alan Grimes wrote: > Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH... I wasn't aware there was a problem: there hasen't been any brokenness for me[1] (current running 91.0.4472.77 ). What's the problem? [1] Except for a minor problem when dragging a tab

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine > > to spread the load. > > > > > > Ah, that's also interesting  ... that's like an alternative to a local > binary server (which I'm currently doing) - the compilations

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 2:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:10 AM n952162 wrote: I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Uh, you might want to read up more on what ChromeOS is. While you can in theory run it on anything, it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:10 AM n952162 wrote: > > I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google > chrome os is based on gentoo. Uh, you might want to read up more on what ChromeOS is. While you can in theory run it on anything, it is designed basically to power

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread sh2d000w
Maybe use firefox-bin instead of firefox?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 11:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, I wouldn't use gentoo.  And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and ... Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, > > I wouldn't use gentoo.  And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and > > ... > > > > > > Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Does anybody have any experience with this? Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I see that there's some concentration on a

[gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Does anybody have any experience with this? Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I see that there's some concentration on a special browser, but I'd be running