Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:42:22AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote If a person does not wish to stay up to date, if they simply wish to have a stable system, is getting busy really a reason to change operating systems? If you're connecting to the internet, you *MUST* keep your system up to

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Walter Dnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:33 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ? On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:42:22AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote If a person does not wish

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 20 May 2007 02:33:24 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're connecting to the internet, you *MUST* keep your system up to date, to maintain security. Not necessarily. You only have to update programs with known security holes. New versions are just as likely to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nick wrote: That was fantastic. Thank you. From the bottom of my geek mind and heart, I thank you. I will complete it, and add some music to it. I guess the Audacity team will be clearly disturbed by me in the following days. I read this to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most people do. Those who leave usually are very busy in their lives simply don't have the time to keep it upto-date. If a person does not wish to stay up to date,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can't stand it anymore! Since the KISS word appeared on the subject line of gentoo-user I had this idea, and now you're gonna MAKE FUN OF ME, ok? For you, from the bottom of my geek mind and heart :P Tonight I'm gonna do a stage 1 fight... In

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Dan Cowsill
LOL! On 5/19/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can't stand it anymore! Since the KISS word appeared on the subject line of gentoo-user I had this idea, and now you're gonna MAKE FUN OF ME, ok? For you, from the bottom of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Nick
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:50:17PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: For you, from the bottom of my geek mind and heart :P Tonight I'm gonna do a stage 1 fight... In the darkness There's so much i wanna MAKE... And Tonight I wanna layman at your feet Gentoo I was made for you Emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:04, arnuld wrote: OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one doubt. i am much more inclined towards using

[gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one doubt. i am much more inclined towards using simple things, like simplicity in designing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it too. oh. And you discovered what was going wrong in your first 10 installations, right? Can you tell if it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 arnuld wrote: 1.) i had a Serial-ATA drive and AMD64 on ASUS with VIA chipsets. kernel-compilation part of Handbook asks to choose PPP options and MCE [...] other motherboards, Intel e.g., but we can leave that to the user for finding the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, none of those errors is Gentoo specific. It's kernel compilations problems, and you'll have those in any distribution. Even the binary ones, if you want to install a custom kernel. for the users that can't compile the kernel by

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
070518 arnuld wrote: On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it too. yep, 99% it was *my* mistake. hey.. i did not blame Gentoo in my earlier post. Yes, Gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dale
arnuld wrote: i am talking of *both* methods. i don't remember anything *exactly* but with genkernel i had exactly same weired problems when i didn't choose VIA PATA in my kernel while compiling manually. i tried 2 times and after that i quit generkernel and decided always to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:04:16 + arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to know whether Gentoo has simplicity or KISS and clean structure in its design as an OS ? this is the only thing that is stopping me from using Gentoo. Gentoo philosophy says *nothing* about simplicity, it talks only

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Philip Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:26 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ? snip Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most people do. Those who leave usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
/etc/genkernel.conf MENUCONFIG=no MRPROPER=no CLEAN=no BOOTSPLASH=no SAVE_CONFIG=yes DEBUGLEVEL=5 BOOTLOADER=grub USECOLOR=yes cd /usr/src/linux zcat /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig genkernel --kernname=WhateverFitsMyMood all the above gives you you the power to configure your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: /etc/genkernel.conf MENUCONFIG=no MRPROPER=no CLEAN=no BOOTSPLASH=no SAVE_CONFIG=yes DEBUGLEVEL=5 BOOTLOADER=grub USECOLOR=yes cd /usr/src/linux zcat /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig genkernel --kernname=WhateverFitsMyMood all