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2011-12-06 Thread Samuraiii
few times my bzip2 flag is set from installation of systemabd since then I needed gpg 1.4 one time so I needed emrege it  (downgrading gpg 2) and then again upgrading it back and then I even tried (few times) to emrege gpg (for rebuilding) because of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I no longer run Gentoo on my Pentium IBM laptop - let's face it with 72M RAM even fluxbox was a bit sluggish!  Ha! ;)- I do however run it on my 1998 vintage Pentium 3 laptop and before that on a Pentium 3 Coppermine.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I do however run it on my 1998 vintage Pentium 3 laptop and before that on a Pentium 3 Coppermine.  KDE is sluggish and rebuilding KDE takes a day or so. That's why I don't run a full KDE ...  ;p  Only some KDE apps on e17.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for beginners! Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros, like Mandriva and Ubuntu, catering for first time users. Gentoo is a power users

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition

2011-12-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 December 2011, at 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... I wouldn't bother, Mint already has Grub2, which makes adding extra distros a piece of cake. Install Gentoo, without a bootloader, reboot into Mint and run sudo grub-update. This one. Everyone else who is replying is part of a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-12-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.12.2011 11:18, schrieb Samuraiii: few times my bzip2 flag is set from installation of systemabd since then I needed gpg 1.4 one time so I needed emrege it (downgrading gpg 2) and then again upgrading it back and then I even tried (few times) to emrege gpg (for rebuilding) because of

[gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I have an offer to sell my Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (Intel Core2Duo T8100). I am rather happy with that notebook, after having upgraded RAM, SSD and a new batterypack. The opportunity to get some money for it instead of using it until it isn't worth anything anymore makes me look for a new thinkpad.

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.12.2011 13:29, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: That's about it for a first thought. second thought: I'd like it to be cheaper than ~1000 EUR So those big irons fall out of choice. S

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-06 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 13:29 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I have an offer to sell my Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (Intel Core2Duo T8100). I am rather happy with that notebook, after having upgraded RAM, SSD and a new batterypack. The opportunity to get some money for it instead of using it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
111206 LinuxIsOne wrote: Then I asked him of ... Gentoo he says: Is it a country? No, it's a miniature penguin (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre,

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.12.2011 14:05, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: I too have an R61... was happy that it came preinstalled with Linux (albeit SuSe Linux) and the general experience with it has been rather pleasant. It was my first ThinkPad and what got me hooked on them. Same here, yes ... Earlier this

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Longman
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:14 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) this application does not supprt audio but

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-06 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) this application does not supprt audio but only imageing I want the full

[gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone using that? I see three pkgs in portage: dev-libs/libzeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datahub This allows me to use this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/33/jump-lists/ but afai see it only works with libreoffice right now, but not with other

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Grant
What about trouble with the DNSBL lists?  I know when I changed my IP address I had to work to get the new one removed from a few blacklists it had previously been placed on.  I wasn't sending spam, but my messages would have been blocked under that config if I hadn't done the work to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure xorg Failed

2011-12-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Xorg is complaining that it couldn't open IPv6 sockets. Xorg uses sockets to handle the clients, that's what makes it work with remote clients. I'd guess that you tried to built a no-network box, but Xorg need sockets. It doesn't make much sense in a Gentoo world, but it was worth trying. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3

2011-12-06 Thread Aljosha Papsch
Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone using that? I see three pkgs in portage: dev-libs/libzeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist gnome-extra/zeitgeist-datahub This allows me to use this extension:

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/06/11 11:32, Grant wrote: Got it. Your explanations are positively lucid. I added this to /etc/postifx/main.cf: postscreen_greet_action = enforce postscreen_pipelining_enable = yes postscreen_pipelining_action = enforce postscreen_non_smtp_command_enable = yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition

2011-12-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 05.12.2011 22:58, Grant Edwards wrote: Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, that means you could have grub on /dev/sda I have a setting with three bootloaders chained. First Grub2 who boots Gentoo or the Windows XP bootloader. The Windows Bootloader has to

Re: [gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-12-06 17:59, schrieb Aljosha Papsch: Applications need to support zeitgeist. If an application do not support it (Thunderbird most certainly doesn't), files and activities simply don't get recorded. For example, opening files in Nautilus will track opened files but doing something on

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/06/11 11:32, Grant wrote: Got it.  Your explanations are positively lucid. I added this to /etc/postifx/main.cf: postscreen_greet_action = enforce postscreen_pipelining_enable = yes

Re: [gentoo-user] zeitgeist in Gnome 3

2011-12-06 Thread Aljosha Papsch
Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 19:22 +0100 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2011-12-06 17:59, schrieb Aljosha Papsch: Applications need to support zeitgeist. If an application do not support it (Thunderbird most certainly doesn't), files and activities simply don't get recorded. For

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Grant
Got it.  Your explanations are positively lucid. I added this to /etc/postifx/main.cf: postscreen_greet_action = enforce postscreen_pipelining_enable = yes postscreen_pipelining_action = enforce postscreen_non_smtp_command_enable = yes postscreen_non_smtp_command_action = enforce

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Indi
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:00:03PM +0100, LinuxIsOne wrote: However, Getoo could be great (I really don't know) but installing Ubuntu is working like a charm (I still don't know anything in Linux!) But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for beginners! It is typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Indi
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:00:02PM +0100, LinuxIsOne wrote: I guess, if Gentoo is required to be learned first and that's why it is not so popular like Ubuntu and lag far behind than it. When I asked a stranger do you know about Computers? He says, no but I know what it is. Then I asked him

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for beginners! Because Gentoo is not for beginners, there are already plenty of distros, like Mandriva and

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/06/2011 04:34 PM, Grant wrote: Do you know how smtps comes into play? Right now I've got the following uncommented in master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd smtps inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-06 Thread walt
On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port. However Gentoo decided to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-06 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/06/2011 06:55 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) this application does not supprt audio but

[gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread walt
On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance. I remember there was a little trick to make past versions of FF to work with pulse audio (that I use so VirtualBox

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.12.2011 14:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I currently look at the cheaper ones: Edge E520, L520, T420 ... Zooming in on a L520 w/ core i5-2430M and WXGA++ (higher resolution) Any concerns or experiences? Thanks, greets, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: And yet the documentation is clear enough for anyone to follow along. Which leads me to my next point: the Gentoo documentation is far and away the best of any distro I have tried. Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-06, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:00:03PM +0100, LinuxIsOne wrote: However, Getoo could be great (I really don't know) but installing Ubuntu is working like a charm (I still don't know anything in Linux!) But I don't know why the creators of

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-06, ny6...@gmail.com ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for beginners! Because Gentoo is not for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Indi
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:40:01AM +0100, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-06, ny6...@gmail.com ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: But I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 7, 2011 2:22 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/06/11 11:32, Grant wrote: Got it. Your explanations are positively lucid. I added this to /etc/postifx/main.cf:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts to toggle .asoundrc

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Grant
That will disable postgrey, but isn't enough to enable postscreen. There are a couple of daemons you have to enable in master.cf (steps 2 through 6):  http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html#enable That README refers to lines that are commented-out in master.cf; of course, if you've

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Grant
SMTPS is deprecated. You probably don't need it at all, unless you do. Some older (Microsoft...) clients can't use anything else for encryption. These days, the proper way to secure your users' connections is with TLS on the submission port, 587. You should also have a commented-out

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 7, 2011 8:01 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: That will disable postgrey, but isn't enough to enable postscreen. There are a couple of daemons you have to enable in master.cf (steps 2 through 6): http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html#enable That README refers to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:23:22PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I don't know why the creators of Gentoo made it so difficult for beginners! It is typical then Whaddayatawkinbout, gentoo is more than great, it's awesome! Gentoo isn't intended for beginners, and makes no claims about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance. I remember there was a little trick to make past

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

2011-12-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 20:49:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:18:40 +, Mick wrote: But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all their output printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily difficult to untangle the spaghetti that may show up in an