On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:45:45 -0200, Érico Porto wrote:
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo?
It's in portage, so I suppose the answer has to be yes.
PS please do not top-post.
PPS Sorry for nicking your tagline Alan ;-)
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Neil Bothwick
I'm not opinionated, I'm just
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:45:45 -0200, Érico Porto wrote:
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo?
It's in portage, so I suppose the answer has to be yes.
PS please do not top-post.
PPS Sorry for nicking your tagline Alan ;-)
I sure did misread that
Coming from Gentoo, I'll recommend Arch Linux, a Gentoo with
binariespure sugar.
Laurent
2011/11/16 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:45:45 -0200, Érico Porto wrote:
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo?
It's in portage, so I
Dale wrote:
Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home
directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on
with something new.
I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things
a lot easier if and when you switch. It also
Steven J Long wrote:
Dale wrote:
Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home
directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on
with something new.
I strongly recommend keeping a separate partition for /home; it makes things
a lot easier if and when
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:19:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to
have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount
logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large
physical partition.)
Learned
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven J Long wrote:
Dale wrote:
Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home
directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on
with something new.
I strongly recommend keeping a separate
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I
guess. lol
Heh, I knew you'd bring up that monstrosity ;-)
Rgds,
I couldn't resist. Sorry. o_O Just shows
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:19:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
Heh indeed; you can even keep an lvm setup across distros. I used to
have `gentoo' and `debian' volume groups and it's easy to mount
logical volumes in either direction (/home was on a separate large
physical partition.)
On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I guess.
lol
Heh, I knew you'd bring up that monstrosity ;-)
Rgds,
I couldn't
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I always make /home separate. Well, until udev needs it too I
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo?
Érico V. Porto
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 8:07 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 16, 2011 3:26 AM, Dale
Érico Porto wrote:
is it possible to install lightDM (ubuntu 11.10) in gentoo?
Érico V. Porto
It looks like you can.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/10/simple-lightdm-manager-lets-easily-tweak-ubuntu-11-10-login-screen/
I have not tested this tho so no idea what it could/might break.
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:05:39 -0600, Dale wrote:
Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all?
I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR
I mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on
the wrong drive in this case.
Dale wrote:
Hi,
This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux
on
my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I
don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with
a slow CPU and not a lot of ram either. So, what is a easy
On 2011-11-11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Now to teach him how to update the thing.
I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running
Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could.
On Friday 11 Nov 2011 22:02:40 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2011-11-11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Now to teach him how to update the thing.
I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend
Grant Edwards wrote:
The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
tolerable.
cough cough Care to share how you did that little trick? I like to
see the stuff scrolling up myself.
Is there a
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote:
The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
tolerable.
cough cough Care to share how you did that little trick? I like
to see the stuff
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote:
The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
tolerable.
cough cough Care to share how you did that little trick? I like
to
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote:
The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
tolerable.
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