Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:43:40 -0400, John covici wrote: Well, what I mean by portage thinks is that its still looking for updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I do emerge --update --deep world I get ebuilds from the overlays and at the end it has the [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Crayon
On Sunday 15 April 2007 15:31, Jarry wrote: I had the similar experience: tried to install 2006.1 on new mobo, but sata controller could not be recognised (some via chpiset iirc). Ditto Had to buy extra some p-ata drive, install gentoo on it, update kernel, then sata-drive got recognised,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is apache 2.2 hard masked? - comments to my (preliminary) solution

2007-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, Mike Williams schrieb: On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:13:44 Wolfgang Liebich wrote: OK - it is in testing. Has anyone here experiences on how stable it is to run? Maybe I need it b/c of a new auth module which does not seem to be available in apache 2.0.58... Oddly enough...

[gentoo-user] Gentoo native 64 Bits installation with a Intel Xeon Dual Core?

2007-04-16 Thread qfpvajdy
Hello, I would like to know if its possible to install a Gentoo Linux in a 64 Bits native mode with a Intel Xeon Dual Core processor? In my case it would be a Intel Xeon 3060 2.40 GHz, 4 MB Cache, Dual-Core, 1066 FSB. Should I take the AMD64 ISO image for this? Best regards, saf --

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dale
Crayon wrote: As someone already pointed out, boot using any other livecd that recognises the controller, then follow the usual gentoo install instructions, remembering to config kernel for your sata controller. I had to do this to an Asus motherboard a little while back - yes it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Crayon
On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in cache, you're in a pickle. I'm not sure why that would be a problem? My system only had one cdrom and I managed fine :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread David Grant
I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with the drive although it might be. I have seen hard resetting port messages through my google searches but often they are associated with an error of some sort. I'm using 2.6.19. Anyone else have any experience with this?

[gentoo-user] cups does not print

2007-04-16 Thread arnuld
i enabled all the printing options as described in Gentoo Printing How to Wiki: i have a parallel-port EPSON Dot Matrix LX-300+ printer and i printed thousands of pages in Arch Linux and Fedora using that printer without any single trouble. in Gentoo i am unable to make it print i did all these:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Jose Maria Alonso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone I'm 37, using gentoo since 2005. Cheers! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can't find xfcer-xmms-plugins

2007-04-16 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,guys! Do you guys who use xfce4.4 have xfcer-xmms-plugins?I can't find it. Below is the message of xfcer-xmms-plugins http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xmms-plugin Thanks in advanced! -- wcw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find xfcer-xmms-plugins

2007-04-16 Thread Rostislav
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi,guys! Do you guys who use xfce4.4 have xfcer-xmms-plugins?I can't find it. Below is the message of xfcer-xmms-plugins http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xmms-plugin Thanks in advanced! -- wcw -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2007/4/16, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with the drive although it might be. I have seen hard resetting port messages through my google searches but often they are associated with an error of some sort. I'm using 2.6.19.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:43:40 -0400, John covici wrote: Well, what I mean by portage thinks is that its still looking for updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I do emerge --update --deep world I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find xfcer-xmms-plugins

2007-04-16 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/4/16, Rostislav [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi,guys! Do you guys who use xfce4.4 have xfcer-xmms-plugins?I can't find it. Below is the message of xfcer-xmms-plugins http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xmms-plugin Thanks in

RE: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Nelson, David J
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone I'm 21, was an on-off user between about 15 and 19 and settled down with Gentoo as my main OS about 2 or 3 years ago. Started with SuSE 7.0. I've mainly used Gentoo but I've toyed

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot. No, they ought to be hung, drawn,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically

2007-04-16 Thread arnuld
on every boot Gentoo cleans up the /etc/resolv.conf :-( any solution ? - /etc/hosts -- 127.0.0.1 gnu.planet gnu localhost ::1 localhost -- /etc/conf.d/net - dns_domain_lo=planet config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2/24 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 )

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically

2007-04-16 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le Monday 16 April 2007 13:01:11 arnuld, vous avez écrit : on every boot Gentoo cleans up the /etc/resolv.conf :-( any solution ? - /etc/hosts -- 127.0.0.1 gnu.planet gnu localhost ::1 localhost -- /etc/conf.d/net - dns_domain_lo=planet

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��j)b�bst== 51... and feeling a lot like 40. :.) well... maybe 42. Cheers... -- Jerry McBride

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 16 April 2007 07:01:11 am arnuld wrote: on every boot Gentoo cleans up the /etc/resolv.conf :-( any solution ? - /etc/hosts -- 127.0.0.1 gnu.planet gnu localhost ::1 localhost -- /etc/conf.d/net - dns_domain_lo=planet config_eth0=(

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Davi
Em Segunda 16 Abril 2007 05:19, Crayon escreveu: On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in cache, you're in a pickle. I'm not sure why that would be a problem? My system only had one cdrom and I managed fine :) I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in cache, you're in a pickle. Why's that? In such a case, you simply don't use the Gentoo CD, but some other CD to do your stage 3 installation. No need to be swapping CDs. Alexander Skwar --

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 April 2007, Davi wrote: Em Segunda 16 Abril 2007 05:19, Crayon escreveu: On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in cache, you're in a pickle. I'm not sure why that would be a problem? My system only had

[gentoo-user] can not find shared libraries

2007-04-16 Thread arnuld
i am trying to run binary executable of skype which i used on Arch Linux. i placed the executables in /home/arnuld/.binaries/skype directory. now when i try to run it i get this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.binaries/skype $ ./skype ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2:

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Davi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Segunda 16 Abril 2007 05:19, Crayon escreveu: On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in cache, you're in a pickle. I'm not sure why that would be a

Re: [gentoo-user] can not find shared libraries

2007-04-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Why don't you just emerge skype for a Gentoo-related skype binary, instead of some alien binary? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda:

[gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed = latex2html pb

2007-04-16 Thread galevsky
Hi, I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the compilation failed with the DOC use flag : [...] make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs' latex src/user.tex /dev/null latex src/interface.tex /dev/null make[1]:

[gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
---BeginMessage--- can anyone explain to me what are the differences between the stage 1,2 and 3 installation tarballs? :/ thx... ---End Message---

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:40:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge /dev/null Out of interest: 1) Why --duplicates (i.e. am I missing something ;).

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 15:00:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:40:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge /dev/null Out of interest: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] can not find shared libraries

2007-04-16 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 arnuld wrote: Ouch ! i did not know that.. Now, to tell you the truth, you should've checked forums.gentoo.org and search for skype there. Or google for gentoo skype or something like that, instead of coming directly here. But, the truth is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MSSQL command line Linux interface

2007-04-16 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Monday 09 April 2007 20:40, Michael Mauch wrote: Mauro Faccenda wrote: I need to do some simple tasks in a MSSQL Server from a Linux that have no X installed. I know I can tunnel a SSH connection and run any MSSQL in my own box, but I think it's more practical to have a cli gui for

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 April 2007, Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs': El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:54:49 +0300 Stratos Psomadakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: can anyone explain to me what are the differences between the stage 1,2 and 3 installation tarballs?ç

[gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-16 Thread Garry Smith
Hi all, My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications? Many thanks regards Garry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:06:54 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I remember now. If you have only one kernel installed, --duplicates prevents it being uninstalled - quite a useful feature ;-) head -n -2 would prevent that anyway. As well as preventing the deletion from /boot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread purple
installing with stage3 and 2x emerge -e system and 2x emerge -e world will give you exact performance as it was installed from stage1.. On 4/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007, Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Stage

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 April 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: IIRC, I started from stage 1 on my first install (2004.3), but I wouldn't recommend anything other than stage 3 to anyone at this point, since there's now an established procedure for changing your CHOST if need be, and packages in system

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Monday 16 April 2007 11:41:01 John covici wrote: Well, what I mean by portage thinks is that its still looking for updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I do emerge --update --deep

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:56:27 +0200 purple [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: installing with stage3 and 2x emerge -e system and 2x emerge -e world will give you exact performance as it was installed from stage1.. Nah, doing an emerge -e world will give you exactly the same. Since the gcc compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:02:39 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Monday 16 April 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: IIRC, I started from stage 1 on my first install (2004.3), but I wouldn't recommend anything other than stage 3 to anyone at this point, since there's now an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo native 64 Bits installation with a Intel Xeon Dual Core?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Walker
qfpvajdy wrote: I would like to know if its possible to install a Gentoo Linux in a 64 Bits native mode with a Intel Xeon Dual Core processor? In my case it would be a Intel Xeon 3060 2.40 GHz, 4 MB Cache, Dual-Core, 1066 FSB. Should I take the AMD64 ISO image for this? Yes. Be lucky,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 16:23:34 John covici wrote: Well, here issomething which might help -- output from update-eix. Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading 100% [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental

Re: [gentoo-user] can not find shared libraries

2007-04-16 Thread arnuld
On 4/16/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, to tell you the truth, you should've checked forums.gentoo.org and search for skype there. Or google for gentoo skype or something like that, instead of coming directly here. well, actually, i also have Wengophone and Gizmo

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 April 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote: So, besides wasting your time, there is no point (even for learning purposes) on doing a stage1 install. If you want to learn something about the build process of a linux distro go and use linux from scratch. The snippet above (actually 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Hamie
On Sunday 15 April 2007 07:37, Dale wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 4/15/07, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware. ... We (I) need 2007.0 ASAP. Just get any old version (that works), That's the point.

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-16 Thread David Grant
On 4/16/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/4/16, David Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem with the drive although it might be. I have seen hard resetting port messages through my google searches but often they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-16 Thread Grant
After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best performance as far as bittorrent download speed. How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? Hm, usually not. Are you by chance shaping the internal (i.e. LAN) interface on a router? Then, of course, it would

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage

[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Marc Blumentritt
b.n. schrieb: Yes, this is quite boring, since I wouldn't like to rely on network/double drive. Wouldn't it be possible to use a multisession cd/dvd with the gentoo cd in the first session and the tarball in the second (or editing the gentoo cd ISO)? I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/16/07, Thomas Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:14:07 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: If you want a new release, just emerge --sync. :) Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware. I needed to bootstrap on an old box, then swap hard drives. Not very friendly. We (I) need 2007.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/16/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:14:07 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: If you want a new release, just emerge --sync. :) Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware. I needed to bootstrap on an old box, then swap hard

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I think you need to try running a real benchmark like bonnie++ against both. For example, you run time dd but you don't include the sync in the time... Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Daniel Iliev, Actually I'd be glad to read some results from a Fake RAID-0 vs

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Go back to using Solaris ya old fart! ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:36:49AM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: Weren't you talking about portage? In that case you should obviously file it against portage.. But yeah, any app that has a --nocolor equivalent that

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 April 2007, Thomas Tuttle wrote: On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Nearly 28. Been using gentoo since version 1.0 (maybe pre-1.0 but can't remember). I started using linux back when slackware fit on a bunch of 5.25 floppies. I now work full time at a startup in the silicon valley watching over 4 datacenters full of CentOS machines (and some Solaris).

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Thomas Tuttle, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot. No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses hung out on a stick to be picked clean by crows.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread b.n.
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO stuff, though I always use network, if possible. What about a USB-Stick (if you have USB 2.0)? Or possibly a second hard drive? Or you move the harddrive from your old machine to your build machine and build everything on it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:00:04 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of testing, these numbers seem to give me the best performance as far as bittorrent download speed. How can that be? Is DOWNLINK my upload and UPLINK my download? Hm, usually not. Are you by chance

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread b.n.
Dale ha scritto: Me, I'd go back to Mandrake until a new release comes out. As a former Mandraker: for $DEITY's sake, not Mandrake! Not after Gentoo. Debian, Kubuntu, even Slack...but not Mandrake! :) m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] How's that for dedication ... A Gentoo tatoo...

2007-04-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
http://gallery.shinmashii.net/main.php?g2_itemId=4179 (BTW, that's not ME, that's an ex-coworker) ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How's that for dedication ... A Gentoo tatoo...

2007-04-16 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
i think i saw that in the gwn... impressive... but... he'll have a difficult time if he changes distro.. :P O/H Daevid Vincent έγραψε: http://gallery.shinmashii.net/main.php?g2_itemId=4179 (BTW, that's not ME, that's an ex-coworker) ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How's that for dedication ... A Gentoo tatoo...

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Shields
On 4/16/07, Stratos Psomadakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think i saw that in the gwn... impressive... but... he'll have a difficult time if he changes distro.. :P O/H Daevid Vincent έγραψε: http://gallery.shinmashii.net/main.php?g2_itemId=4179 (BTW, that's not ME, that's an ex-coworker)

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Michal 'vorner' Vaner, Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not compiling and compile on other machine using

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-16 Thread Grant
Well, the problem is that limiting inbound traffic is absolutely unreliable. From the numbers given, I guess you're on DSL, right? (Just like me, BTW.) If you were on cable, well, there's not a lot you can do since the media is unreliable w/ regard to your share of it. But I think you're talking

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:01:24 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. portage can use any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: Me, I'd go back to Mandrake until a new release comes out. As a former Mandraker: for $DEITY's sake, not Mandrake! Not after Gentoo. Debian, Kubuntu, even Slack...but not Mandrake! :) m. Well, allow me to clarify a bit. I wouldn't want you to have a heart

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? well, since so many people replied, why not?... I'm 28 (according to the histogram there are only 2 of us :) and using Linux since Redhat 6.something (1997 ?) that I bought on the cover

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 16 April 2007 07:02:09 pm Dale wrote: b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: Me, I'd go back to Mandrake until a new release comes out. As a former Mandraker: for $DEITY's sake, not Mandrake! Not after Gentoo. Debian, Kubuntu, even Slack...but not Mandrake! :) m. Well, allow me

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread anhnmncb
Hello, I just want to know another method to gain the latest x86 stable branch's update info, nothing more else, what I have heard of I mensioned in the first thread really wasn't the point I wanted to make, so... can all of you ignore of it... Any way, thank you all;p -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:10:27 +0400, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... As has been said, the installation CD does not need to be specifically a Gentoo cd, although it seems worth repeating that it _does_ have to support the same architecture. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: Hi Dale... Umm... where do you live? I'm in New Jersey... If you are state side, I'm willing to burn a few Gentoo cd's or dvd's for you if you wish. Won't cost you a dime. Just email me if you are interested. -- Jerry McBride Well, everything is good to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dale
Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I agree that the installation CD does not need to be specifically a Gentoo cd, but I believe that it should be always possible to use it for installation, even when workarounds are available. The only argument that explains why it is currently not the fact is the