Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-29 Thread William Kenworthy
such a bad thing. > It solves 99% of all the problems reported in a gcc upgrade for people > who *didn't* do an "emerge -e world". > > Doing it from the outset will save the forums and bugs a lot of stress > and heartache that could have been easily avoided. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] preserve_old_lib and I'm even more lazy

2012-02-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 22:44 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > >> Am I the only paranoid person who moves them rather than unlinking > >> them? Oh, if only btrfs were stable... > > > > Is this a reference to snapshots? You can use ZFS for those. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 07:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > I don't know about general consensus. In my opinion, it's plain spam to > > existing users. (And that would IMO be the xth news item in a row to be > > spam.) > > Can't say I agre

Re: [gentoo-dev] zoom concerns

2020-04-01 Thread William Kenworthy
And I would like to add that sometimes you don't have a choice - if someone who is paying you says to use zoom, there is no choice - but I would rather use gentoo than fire up the MS laptop.. What gentoo can do is mitigate the risk - which I need to look into to see whats done in the ebuild ov

[gentoo-dev] radeon video card

2020-04-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all,     How can I check that the microcode is being loaded by a radeon HD5770 graphics card? I have used "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon"; to set it up, but there is nothing in dmesg about loading the firmware like you see with the cpu microcode - the card works without the firmware

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/4/21 4:14 am, Philip Webb wrote: > 210419 Roy Bamford wrote: >> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. > You beat me by 6 mth . I had recently built my 2nd machine > & had been using Mandrake in the 1st, but they were slow with their release. > I tried Suse + Slackware, but couldn't