Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-02-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Michael Vetter: just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc. paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:06:21 -0600, Dale wrote: From the Changelog: At the request of QA team the use of DRACUT_MODULES use-expand has been removed as well as run-time (pseudo-suggested) dependencies. Instead, the list of suggested dependencies is printed in postinst log message.

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 17:19:29 -0700, Joseph wrote: 1) Don't leave it so long between upgrades. I usually try not to exceed 2-months between upgrades. I think this is a reasonable time. If you are getting too many upgrades at once, maybe it isn't. If you are leaving it that long, I hope you

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 01:16:58 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. Yes. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it started causing me

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it started causing me

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/02/2015 11:54, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Michael Vetter: just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc. paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment and pkgsrc because of the nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 11:00:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:16:31 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It dates back to the days when fonts were much coarser and it was the only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital o. Less useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it. Yes, I know, but I can't see why it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Planning to test them here shortly. Then to see how long before it flunks the test, like last time I used this thing. I also realized I have a spare 750GB drive to. That could come in handy. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Well, it seems this went fairly well. I saw dracut stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:06:21 -0600, Dale wrote: From the Changelog: At the request of QA team the use of DRACUT_MODULES use-expand has been removed as well as run-time (pseudo-suggested) dependencies. Instead, the list of suggested dependencies is printed in postinst

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-08 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. What are my

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:05:44PM -0700, Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. What are my alternatives?

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:05:44 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. I had one of those when they weren't so old. It will definitely run Gentoo, in fact the configurability of Gentoo makes it good for

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 23:23:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/8/2015 10:35 AM, Dale wrote: would build correctly, both compile and create the init thingy. So, I now have a couple kernels that have a init thingy, testing with that, Has anyone ever pointed out that init thingy actually takes more effort to type than initramfs or initrd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:37:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: Has anyone ever pointed out that init thingy actually takes more effort to type than initramfs or initrd? But less than initramfs or initrd. How about init*? Or is this another reason not to use one? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Intel:

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:54:07 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: By accident during my update of my ASUS EEE (now successfully completed), I discovered that it connects automatically to the Internet when the physical connection is plugged in, while my desktop machine (AMD + Gigabyte mobo) has to be told

Re: [gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-08 Thread Philip Webb
150208 Joseph wrote: I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo : it would be too slow to compile anything. I've just successfully updated my 1005 Ha , bought in 2009. Gcc-4.8.3 took 3 h 35 m to compile. I avoid KDE Firefox LO . --

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the thin one It's the same with me. :-) I'd have thought it

[gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-08 Thread Philip Webb
By accident during my update of my ASUS EEE (now successfully completed), I discovered that it connects automatically to the Internet when the physical connection is plugged in, while my desktop machine (AMD + Gigabyte mobo) has to be told by 'dhcpcd'. The netbook's syslog reports (my comments

[gentoo-user] old EEE PC 1000

2015-02-08 Thread Joseph
I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it. What are my alternatives? I'll would like to run VPN, some browser on it and skype. --