[gentoo-user] Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-14 Thread James
Anybody tested out the new liveDVD-11.0? It's always nice to burn a copy and visit your local computer/laptop store and testdrive both; imho http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-11-0-Has-Been-Released-188578.shtml or http://www.gentoo.org/ Anybody get a brief explanation or summary

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Live 11.0

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Anybody get a brief explanation or summary between the hybrid and the multilib versions? Hybrid runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit hardware. MultilLib requires 64-bit hardware. HTH, Mark

[gentoo-user] devfs is obsolete?

2011-03-14 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
As per the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit. Everything seems to work fine, except that I can't create xterms. If I start up devfs,

[gentoo-user] Simplify finding the package?

2011-03-14 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, sorry for the nondescript title. Let me described what happened. I ran `emerge --update --deep world' over the weekend which updated app-text/poppler: Sat Mar 12 22:00:46 2011 app-text/poppler-0.16.3 Today I found out that a whole bunch of packages got broken, and so I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplify finding the package?

2011-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 March 2011 17:14:25 Willie Wong wrote: Hi list, sorry for the nondescript title. Let me described what happened. I ran `emerge --update --deep world' over the weekend which updated app-text/poppler: Sat Mar 12 22:00:46 2011 app-text/poppler-0.16.3 Today I found out that a

[gentoo-user] Re: devfs is obsolete?

2011-03-14 Thread walt
On 03/14/2011 10:57 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: As per thehttp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml I recompiled my kernel with pts support, installed udev, and used rc-update to remove devfs from sysinit. Everything seems to work fine, except

[gentoo-user] terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-14 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have recently added a WD 2TB green drive to two systems and am finding terrible performance with btrfs on an LVM using these drives. I just saw on the mythtv list about the sector size problem these drives have where they have poor performance unless you can map the partitions onto certain