Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: What's the best way to get this back without loosing the system? ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs). Ik ! Why does he need KSM ? -- Google found an article which advises : if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
120704 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: 120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs). Ik ! My view exactly (grin). Why does he need KSM ? -- Google found an article which advises : if you need to run multiple virtual machines on a host where

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Ric de France
On 4 July 2012 07:16, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs.) Having a laptop with Gentoo that wasn't updated for months looks to me like the wrong usage case for Gentoo. If you want periods of several months of base package stability, you do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/03/12 17:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/07/12 21:35, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built