[gentoo-user] Re: Purpose of bashcomp_alias in bash-completion-r1.eclass?

2014-11-30 Thread James
Florian Gamböck ml at floga.de writes: Before reporting a bug I wanted to hear other opinions on that: In bash-completion-r1.eclass, what is the true purpose of bashcomp_alias? There was a detailed discussion in gentoo-dev that is excellent reading on this issue: [gentoo-dev] [news item

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Whats the purpose of this? To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread znx
Hi, There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Hope this helps Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-22 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/08/2014 15:31, Martin Vaeth wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler might help you here: You either need to be able to split your command into several

[gentoo-user] logs in the browser?

2015-02-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
As I see that syslog-thread ... I think of setting up something for apache that allows a client to browse and search through the postfix-logs for his domain. Any good hints what to use for that purpose? Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm fails to emerge

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
dot net dot au Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:55:26 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > The purpose of a computer is to save me time and effort. I thought that was the purpose of this mailing list, to save you the time and effort of finding things out for yourself. If saving time and effort is so important, you sho

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
lly "just works". It is a great general purpose file system, for general purpose computing. Standard LAMP stack, desktop, laptop, HTPC, etc. are all satisfied by ext4 Since it is so broadly used and supported, you are guaranteed to find documentation for whatever feature or issue

[gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread james
Us for what they're made (graphics processing) but their resources go unused > by most applications, not in buying powerful GPUs for the purpose of offloading > general purpose code, if that's the goal you're better off investing in more > general purpose cores that are more suited for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Stroller
. It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the purpose. Instead, I think, it should prevent swapfile fragmentation - making it a very good general-purpose setting to enable. What would be really idea for the OP is some kind of grub setting a bash script that formats

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: in-memory database - SOLVED

2010-02-12 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, Thank a lot for your advices. I will try both mysql and sqlite to see which one is better for our purpose. Have a nice weekend, Hung On 02/12/10 10:56, Doug O'Neal wrote: On 02/11/2010 12:27 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data

[gentoo-user] Re: Finalizing my backup system

2010-09-26 Thread walt
On 09/26/2010 12:13 PM, Grant wrote: 2. backupninja can email reports. This works on my remote server which runs postfix, but my laptop and desktop don't run an MTA. Is there a simple one that would be well-suited to a purpose like this, or do I need full-blown postfix on my laptop

[gentoo-user] Re: Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Harry Putnam
don't need to be in X. The application lists many flags and a description of their purpose (in alphabetical order). You can just start typing the name of any USE flag... and find it right quick, along with a somewhat detailed purpose explanation. You can globally set flags... and maybe set them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Rich Freeman
. Of course. I wasn't expecting the general-purpose algorithm to do as well. In some sense, part of the information that is being encoded is actually in the compression algorithm itself (the mapping), while in a general-purpose compression algorithm that information has to be part of the compressed data

[gentoo-user] Purpose of bashcomp_alias in bash-completion-r1.eclass?

2014-11-30 Thread Florian Gamböck
Good day! Before reporting a bug I wanted to hear other opinions on that: In bash-completion-r1.eclass, what is the true purpose of bashcomp_alias? For now I only see error messages when trying to eselect bashcomp enable two aliases of the same script because of the same linkname. What

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-29 Thread Thufir
On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Jarnal is the best tool I've seen for this purpose so far. You can load a PDF as a background, paint/write all over it and export the result as PDF again. No ebuild, though. Roger [...] you compiled on your own? ok. what happens

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 failed

2006-01-15 Thread Chris White
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: Dear my user list friends, please help me to emerge system. i just run #emerge system . but it gave me a perl error. We have a bugzilla specifically for this purpose. Please refer to https://bugs.gentoo.org/ Chris White pgpEq6wKhKWfQ.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Acer Aspire 5002

2006-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:05:29 +, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: The wlan interface is: Broadcom 4318 This is the same as the Apple Airport Extreme, and is now supported natively - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life

[gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-04 Thread Denis
I wanted to see if there's a way to set up a home recording mini-studio using Linux. In Windoze, there's things like Cubase, Ableton, Reason, Wavelab, etc... What's available in Linux for that purpose (recording, sequencing, mixing, sound effects), and which of those does Gentoo have

Re: [gentoo-user] [I--] [ ~] net-analyzer/ndoutils-1.4_beta7 (0)

2008-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: in the [I--] [ ~] net-analyzer/ndoutils-1.4_beta7 (0) line What command produced this output? equery list That explains it. The output looked familiar but I tend to use eix for that purpose. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] OK

2008-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote: Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose? for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 characters -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] make.conf

2008-10-17 Thread ann kok
hi all why we have to put the following flags in the make.conf what are the purpose? CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http

[gentoo-user] Re: dispatch-conf problem

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John covici wrote: on Thursday 01/01/2009 Nikos Chantziaras(rea...@arcor.de) wrote You cannot roll back if you choose to keep the new file with dispatch-conf and didn't backup the current one first. Then what is the purpose of the config-archive directory which I was asked to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-03 Thread Antonino Sabetta
it to the hd of all the others? g4u for instance could be used for this purpose AS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ebuild contains sgml2html command ?

2005-12-02 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Peter Ruskin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html` app-text/sgmltools-lite * Thanks Peter, it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org for this purpose ;-) noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ebuild contains sgml2html command ?

2005-12-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:37:24 +0100 Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qpkg -f `which sgml2html` app-text/sgmltools-lite * Thanks Peter, it would be fine to have special search engine on gentoo.org for this purpose ;-) noro what

[gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

2007-04-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, btw, ghc could provide? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Henk Boom
On 16/07/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because gplv3 removes freedom? As far as I remember from when I read it, it does not take any freedoms which the previous versions did not intend to. The purpose of the GPL is to protect the 4 freedoms. This instalment just closes

Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] OT: Application for video cutting ?

2006-04-02 Thread Marc Redmann
And the applikation should not be a Java based one. I hope you know what you are missing, because IMHO ProjectX (which is written in Java) is one of the best tools at the moment for the purpose of video cutting ... BTW, it is not in portage, AFAIK ... brgds, Marc

[gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-05 Thread Mick
Hi All, At work there's a rather restrictive gateway in place for connecting LAN desktops to the Internet. How would you go about finding its IP address? Assume that I am booting with Knoppix for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-05 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mick wrote: Hi All, At work there's a rather restrictive gateway in place for connecting LAN desktops to the Internet. How would you go about finding its IP address? Assume that I am booting with Knoppix for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick Assuming DHCP works and you can access

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread b.n.
Harald Arnesen wrote: And xterm is mostly compatible with a real VT100, which other terminal emulators usually aren't. As someone that has never, ever used a real VT100, what's the purpose of this full emulation (apart from historical/nostalgic value, of course: and I value this, really

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
060524 znx wrote: There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by hand

[gentoo-user] How to connect my analog telephone in to asterisk system

2006-09-29 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
Dear all, I going to setup basic Gentoo asterisk system for a testing purpose, i have a X100P FXO PCI card and i'm going to use it to connect it PSTN line to asterisk box. so my problem is how do i connect my other normal anolog phones(FXS) to asterisk box. suranga

[gentoo-user] OT: nvidia-cg-toolkit

2006-11-15 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation where someone has purchased an Nvidia card that has good to excellent graphics performance in 3D video games (such as bzflag) and/or anyone that written and code that uses the nvidia (gpu) as a general or special purpose processor Any info or ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

2005-07-15 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Chaz Andrews wrote: I use UltraEdit for this purpose on a daily basis. It is the best editor for all my Windows needs. There is only ONE editor: vim (it runs on everything incl. Windoze) Let the flames begin... ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: I'm surprised you emerged mplayer with USE=-quicktime, since the purpose of doing so is to play Quicktime videos. :P emerge came up with those setting... I just didn't change it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:09:23 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: The USE flag idea is non-viable and doesn't make sense. Why not? The flag already exists for the very purpose the OP raised. -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #01: Windows loading, come back tomorrow signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 23:04, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: What would be the pam-way to only allow remote ssh logins using pubkeys and completely forbid ssh paswd?  I used to remove allow pam from sshd_config.  Is there a better pam-centric way of doing the same thing? Put

[gentoo-user] in-memory database

2010-02-11 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data mining purpose. I have tried to look into /usr/portage/dev-db/ and have not found any in-memory package. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance Hung

[gentoo-user] Re: in-memory database

2010-02-12 Thread Doug O'Neal
On 02/11/2010 12:27 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data mining purpose. I have tried to look into /usr/portage/dev-db/ and have not found any in-memory package. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance Hung mysql has a `memory' table engine

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: For the purpose of posterity: The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define a fall back smtp server. Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up giving help. Did someone answer your question privately?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:38:59 +0200, Al wrote:  Only YOU can go file the bug report and ask for it. It's not done by filing a bug. It's not a bug anyway. This is the clearest demonstration of your lack of understanding yet. -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread walt
On 10/01/2010 10:25 AM, Al wrote: configure: error: operating system cygwin is not supported by strace Any windows alternative? This may be overkill for your purpose, but it's a great tool: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

[gentoo-user] flags: v4l and v4l2

2010-11-04 Thread James
Hello, My google is not sufficient to flesh out the difference (other than the obvious) of these 2 flags. Where would I read about the deep, detailed difference in flags that appear similar in purpose? How would/should I know when flags are deprecated, or on the fast track to becoming

[gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?

2011-07-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2: What's the purpose of setting rc_sys? (In my case, to xenU) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk:    pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:  pepol

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptosetup

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Kan 000i@gmail.com wrote: I have configured a crypt volume, but i forget the key. :/ How to show or change password of a crypt volume using cryptsetup? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of encryption if that were possible? I think you can't do anything unless

[gentoo-user] [OT] Screenshot but as video ?

2012-06-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for an application with which I can grab videos from what I am doing on my desktop (will be used for a kind of tutorial). The video should be playable under windows also. What is a recommended application for that purpose ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screenshot but as video ?

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/06/12 13:26, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for an application with which I can grab videos from what I am doing on my desktop (will be used for a kind of tutorial). The video should be playable under windows also. What is a recommended application for that purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
, /dev/cdrom or dvd on this rig for a good while and it works. I think this happened about the same time as the hard drive devices were changed from hd* to sd* even for old IDE drives. Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug. Dale Might be true but how about digging up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
*. I don't have, and have not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on this rig for a good while and it works. I think this happened about the same time as the hard drive devices were changed from hd* to sd* even for old IDE drives. Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug. Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-29 2:02 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: You show the smallness of your vocabulary by using profanity. Rotflmao! Sometimes profanity actually serves a purpose. And you show the shallowness of your *nix knowledge by replying with such nonesense. Nonsense

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/14/2013 04:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Keep in mind the actual original purpose of a salted hash. If two users happen to use the same password[1], the hashes are the same and this is revealed to anyone who can read /etc/passwd[2] i.e everyone. Ah, the single-entry rainbow table =)

[gentoo-user] Dynamic service runlevel

2013-11-10 Thread 颜林林
Hi geeks, Is it possible to set dynamic service run-level (rc-update) according to different kernel version. There are different kernel versions in my grub menu, and I need to switch between these versions for development purpose. I currently want to disable some services under specific kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: llvm compile error

2014-01-23 Thread walt
On 01/23/2014 01:05 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i try to install llvm but it broke llvm-3.4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 Hi Silvio. You're installing an ~x86 package on an x86 machine, I think. Are you doing that on purpose? I don't know if that is causing the error, but it sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux friendly tablets?

2014-10-10 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Oct 10, 2014 4:39 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan me@ m...@nileshgr.com nileshgr.com m...@nileshgr.com wrote: A friend of mine uses tablets with Intel processors (I think Dell tabs) for this purpose. Thanks but I will be more happier with the ARM bases devices. Besides I think intel based devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Purpose of bashcomp_alias in bash-completion-r1.eclass?

2014-11-30 Thread Florian Gamböck
Am 30.11.2014 um 16:27 schrieb James: [gentoo-dev] [news item review] bash-completion-2.1-r90, version 2 circa 11/10/14. Thank you, that was really worth reading. I'm not completely convinced yet, but it may be a starting point for further investigations. -- Flo

[gentoo-user] http://gitweb.gentoo.org/user/

2015-03-25 Thread James
I just stumbled across this collections of repos. Who are these repos controlled by? What does it take to get a repo listed here? What's the strategy/goal/purpose of this repo collection. It says /user/ so are these just ordinary users? curiously, James

[gentoo-user] Re: [HOT] (Half Offtopic) Gentoo on Nexus 7

2015-07-05 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: ...uuuhh...I am just in process of evaluating whether a Nexus 7 is the right thing to buy for my purpose. Meino The link below is not a product endorsement; just something interesting I saw posted recently. It appears to already run linux

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-28 Thread Thanasis
On 07/28/2015 06:27 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip By the way...While tumbling down the google hole ;) I came across hostapd which exactly seems to be build for the purpose I want: An access point. BUT: I could not decide, what tutorial is correct: Do I still need wpa_supplicant

Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-22 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Read the manual. > ...and get rid of all those excruciating scripts of yours and start doing > things manually and sanely, one step at a time. Repeat the following three times daily: The purpose of a computer is to save me time and effort. -- IQ is a measu

[gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

2016-03-26 Thread Lee
New Clevo W670RZQ Laptop with 6th Gen i7 cpu, hm170 Intel chipset and on- board graphics. Will the latest stable kernel and firmware packages work with it? Will the most recent minimal install disc be adequate for my needs, or should I go with another distribution for the purpose of having

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 07 Jul 2017 07:53:01 Martin Vaeth wrote: > ... my original text was arguing against the claim that the primary > purpose of hardened kernels was to protect against untrusted users > sitting in front of the keyboard. It wasn't a claim, just an impression; and I did say I cou

[gentoo-user] app-shells/bash slotted?

2018-10-06 Thread John Covici
Hi. I noticed when preparing to do my world update today that app-shells/bash is now slotted. I wonder what the purpose of this is, there seems to be no way to select the different versions and upgrading bash broke dracut -- unless they fixed it recently. Any thoughts? -- Your life is like

[gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
Hi All, I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are some apps in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in portage. Do you have experience using any tools for this purpose

[gentoo-user] Kodi 19 stabilization

2021-03-14 Thread Daniel Frey
Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't been able to update TV frontends since October. (Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends and their only purpose is to run Kodi!) I'm also not interested in unmasking a ton of things to get

[gentoo-user] x11-bas/xorg-x11 removal

2022-10-29 Thread ralfconn
Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal. Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
. Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug. Dale Might be true but how about digging up some references that this was done on purpose. It makes little sense to me that if someone did this on purpose, breaking lots of old scripts, leaving broken udev rules laying about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
at most. The value I see on that technology for desktop computing is that we get the GPUs for what they're made (graphics processing) but their resources go unused by most applications, not in buying powerful GPUs for the purpose of offloading general purpose code, if that's the goal you're bet

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:51:52 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me correct myself here: my Gentoo boxen behave like this. A WinXP that I tested for this purpose does not. It comes up with the APIPA address and when a router becomes available in the network later on, it readily obtains

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
? To delete? I don't know. From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect. It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the purpose. Instead, I think, it should prevent swapfile fragmentation - making it a very good general-purpose setting to enable. What would be really

Re: [gentoo-user] bastard.sh - mass unmasker/keywords utility

2006-03-22 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
me... ;) heh, you specifically referenced the website, so I assumed the message on it said something to you that I missed. Be that as it may, I still say, Yeah, so? I also remain unclear as to what your concern is. The purpose of this is to allow you to mass-unmask files. The purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual servers/services: which one?

2006-11-14 Thread Hans de Hartog
VMware? Or something else, supported by Gentoo? I do not know them and I do not have time to test them all, so I would be thankful for any opinion, experiences, comparison, etc... Jarry In order of preference for your purpose: Openvz, the most lighthweight virtualization. One kernel for all

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual servers/services: which one?

2006-11-14 Thread Brian Davis
for your purpose: Openvz, the most lighthweight virtualization. One kernel for all systems. Virtualization starts with the init process Xen, real separate kernels. Other major Linux distro's possible. Only if you want to upgrade a system but need to keep the services available. Vmware

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread walt
: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. Do you have a special purpose in mind, such as mixing multiple sound tracks, professional-quality sound editing, film editing with special sound effects, or something similar? If you do, then you

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 12, 2011 7:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using boa just for this purpose for years: * www-servers/boa Available versions: ~ 0.94.14_rc21 ~x86 ~sparc ~mips ~ppc ~amd64 [doc] Homepage:http://www.boa.org/ Description

[gentoo-user] Purpose of sys-fs/udev-init-scripts

2013-11-08 Thread Pavel Volkov
Does sys-fs/udev-init-scripts serve any purpose on a system that: 1. Has systemd installed and openrc uninstalled 2. Has INSTALL_MASK=/etc/init.d/ set in make.conf I'm asking because sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is a dependency of sys- apps/systemd and I can't figure out why. I currenly added

Re: [gentoo-user] Purpose of sys-fs/udev-init-scripts

2013-11-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Nov 8, 2013 4:27 PM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: Does sys-fs/udev-init-scripts serve any purpose on a system that: 1. Has systemd installed and openrc uninstalled 2. Has INSTALL_MASK=/etc/init.d/ set in make.conf I'm asking because sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is a dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel - locating option

2013-12-26 Thread Joseph
, I found it. Though, it would be nice if I look for an option to enable, from search menu / if it finds it I should be able to select it :-/ I think xconfig may be easier for this purpose? I'm not sure, but there are other ncurses, or GUI-fied kernel configuration applications. Try this to see

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel - locating option

2013-12-27 Thread Mick
by fhandle syscalls --This one! HTH. Thank you! Yes, I found it. Though, it would be nice if I look for an option to enable, from search menu / if it finds it I should be able to select it :-/ I think xconfig may be easier for this purpose? I'm not sure, but there are other

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/php-5.6

2017-02-27 Thread Kai Krakow
-5.6 as soon as it leaves the main repository. But PLEASE, take note, that this receives no security updates. It's purpose is only to be able to still run installations which cannot be ported to newer PHP versions. Also, I can only give very limited support if something won't compile. The overlay ex

Re: [gentoo-user] What Firefox (what browser) for Online-Banking?

2017-01-07 Thread Meino . Cramer
wabe <waben...@gmail.com> [17-01-07 17:48]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > what Firefox-Version/what browser is the most secure one for > > Online-Banking? > > I use a dedicated virtual machine for that purpose. I never > use that VM

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-06-11 Thread R0b0t1
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Wol's lists wrote: > > > On 11/06/18 16:30, R0b0t1 wrote: >> >> Federal law implies a warranty of fitness for a particular purpose* >> from the seller, not the manufacturer. You can take it up with them. >> The statute of limit

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: There should be gentoo-chat list There is one. We call it gentoo-user. It's a rite-of-passage thing. When you figure out the *real* purpose of gentoo-user, then we let you into the inner circle. Next week's lesson is to figure out the *real* mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. The main purpose is to remove virae

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 25 April 2008 06:45:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike UAC, they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users. Having no knowledge of Vista, nor a wish to try it, what is a UAC? Google tells me it's a Universal air

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-11 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:33:10 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. ... On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Just try this tool, it's GUI, written just for that purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall

2009-04-28 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) and get a cheap low power consuming embedded box like the popular WRT54GL or NSLU2. Those

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2005-12-20 00:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access (works fast, small) and free as openbase? I am not familiar with OpenBase, but Kexi and OpenOffice.org Base come to mind as general-purpose alternatives to Microsoft Access

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH 3.1 - DON't UPGRADE

2005-12-22 Thread Ryan Viljoen
On 12/22/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for fun, why would one want to emerge an unstable bash? Is there some feature that I have to have? It wasnt on purpose I assure you, I only notice after the emerge world was complete. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) When you say

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:40, Mark Stewart wrote: Hello fellow Linux Users! We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way. Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose: You missed the target audience. Here at gentoo there are mostly hardcore

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem

2006-01-14 Thread Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com)
well for the temp fix i did a simple tweak that seemed to work fine backup purpose mv /etc/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/old-vmware then just link in the vmware file ln -s /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/vmware run the config script vmware-config.pl follow the instructions View

Re: [gentoo-user] can't chmod +u /sbin/halt anymore

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
a stop to that - any ideas? Shouldn't you be using sudo for this purpose? -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0

2006-02-08 Thread b.n.
to update the less packages I can. Ehm... So, what's the purpose of running Gentoo in your case? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-12 Thread Stewart Taylor
started looking into writing a script for this very purpose so you saved me a bit of work. Thanks for the help. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
-purpose binary distro. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge sandbox

2008-11-07 Thread Mick
sandbox but that failed with the same error. Try this syntax: FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox Also, do you have userpriv in your portage FEATURES? May need to remove it too for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-13 Thread noro kamen
(probably never finished). From experience I can say, if there is too many solutions for the same purpose, no one is perfect :-(. Thanks for suggestion, I'll try it. noro

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