On Thursday 26 August 2004 18:10, Shawn Grover wrote: > Thanks Kevin. Good to know my brain aint too far off. I'll try the second > drive approach... (incidently, that's my last hard drive with an MS OS on > it... :D) > > I don't have to worry about KDE at all - this is a headless server. I had > it in my head at one point to set up remote desktop capabilities with it so > I can access a common gui from remote locations. But, SSH does most of > what I need (file access in particular).
I love SSH and Fish. > I did do an emerge -C for KDE and X, which removed most of it. But I have > some installed packages that are still compiled with X and KDE support and > such. Maybe I'm still too microsoftish, but I like a fresh, clean start Understandable. I feel the same way, but I've been told that it IS just a holdover from the MS days... > every once in a while... Oh, and in addition, they've changed the Portage > tree at the start of August, so a rebuild here will accomodate that as > well... Just emerge portage, and you'd be fixed up again... My server's got a few years on it, and I emerge -u world on it periodically. You name it, it all gets upgraded. The only thing I haven't upgraded yet is the Kernel. It's an old 2.4 one. > I'll let ya know if I have any problems or hiccups... It's not Red Hat/FC whatever...You'll be fine.. :) Didn't another company change their crap product's name so as to distance themselves from it? I think the crap was NT, wasn't it? Strange how the strategies are similar, isn't it. Sorry in advance to those of you still stuck in your pre-Gentoo days... :) HAhahahaha Kev. > Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
