RE: [gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?

2003-04-04 Thread Graham, Steve
Alex Take a look at http://www.waimea.org/ this is one of my favorites, and in the spirit of gentoo its completely customizable. Enjoy ps let us know how it all turns out -Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?

2003-04-04 Thread Graham, Steve
I for one would LOVE having the ability to chose the options I want, customize the settings, start the script and come back in a week to find the system completely compiles and ready to go. Ohh yea, and cut the graphics - I like the text idea w/ explanation! Now, having said that I must admit to

RE: [gentoo-user] April fools?

2003-04-01 Thread Graham, Steve
Kudos' to you Kurt! You have no idea how relived I was when I started seeing the posts on Slashdot about April Fools... I have to admit to feeling a bit sheepish for falling for the trick, but hey that's what April Fools is all about. NICE ONE! Original Message- From: Kurt Lieber

RE: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe

2003-03-21 Thread Graham, Steve
Using the GRP CD images and starting from a stage3 tarball the individual package downloads, updates, and compiling the kernel on an AthlonXP 2100 with a Gig of ram and a 640k DSL line take 5-7 hours. Actually, don't quote me on the time... I go to bed and its done when I wake up. ;0)

RE: [gentoo-user] OT hardware ?

2003-03-06 Thread Graham, Steve
The 8mb cache really comes into play with sustained transfer rates of large files. The 2mb cache is similar to a drive I'm using, it's only 60gb though, and I have no complaints. It all comes down to what the drive is going to be used for. If the drive will primarily be used with lots of small

[gentoo-user] Grub and Win2K dual boot

2003-03-05 Thread Graham, Steve
I'll be dual booting gentoo with windows 2000 - My question is this, can I install grub on the MBR of the second hard drive, then switch the boot order in BIOS to point to the second HD and then have an option on the grub menu to boot into Win2k? Thanks for the help, Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] VMWare / Win4Lin

2003-02-28 Thread Graham, Steve
When / Where would a person notice the best performance using Win4Lin or VMWare? Is there a ebuild package for VMWare? Can either one be run in window mode while using Linux at the same time? I'm also curious as to purpose of running Windows under Linux, I understand wanting to use Windows apps,