Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. I know how you feel :-) I've tried to get away

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On 31 May 2011 14:38, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. I know how you feel :-) I've tried to get away from Gentoo several times,

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 15:06, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine.  I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. So, since I am familiar with Ubuntu from work, and have it on a couple of laptops, I'm installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Stroller
On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being made, so the clock speed is 1.6 GHz. On 4 cores, it's not bad at all. I *think* at that

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread BRM
From: Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 9:57:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 May 2011 05:31:15 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com mailto:laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your system scare you away? Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no longer bring up

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 27 May 2011 11:55:48 Mick wrote: ... may I recommend SystemRescueCD. It is updated more often, has the latest drivers and pretty much works better that the Gentoo LiveCD (most of the time). Another point in its favour is that it starts RAID and LVM itself, which saves a fair bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being made, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago,

[gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no longer bring up X but I could use the console-mode for admin, and log in via SSH from my laptop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no longer bring up X

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.comwrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com mailto:laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your system scare you away? Have you tried using an older live cd? If it's a video issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine.  I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no longer bring up X but