Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:59:43 -0500 schrieb Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:41:41PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote Hah, I wonder if that's because the script was written before the x86 and x86_64 architectures were merged in the kernel :) . I remember Heise

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2012, 20:23:08 schrieb Walter Dnes: a lot easier: grub with entry: vmlinuz vmlinuz.old in /usr/src/linux: make all modules_install install no problems, latest kernel will boot by default, previous kernel .old. see? easy. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.11.2012 22:53, schrieb Grant: What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. - Grant cgroups are

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread George Karagiannidis
Greetings. Philipp, I am currently using XFCE and I would like to switch to KDE, but I consider it a bit bloated :S. Do you mind sharing the way you setup your KDE? regards, George Karagiannidis On 11/26/2012 10:38 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.11.2012 22:53, schrieb Grant: What are

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.11.2012 09:49, schrieb George Karagiannidis: On 11/26/2012 10:38 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.11.2012 22:53, schrieb Grant: What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:23:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: /usr/src/makeover ***IMPORTANT*** The arch/x86 directory is specific to 32-bit i686 kernels. Adjust accordingly if you use a different architecture. #!/bin/bash make \

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:21:34 -0600 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:23:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: /usr/src/makeover ***IMPORTANT*** The arch/x86 directory is specific to 32-bit i686 kernels. Adjust accordingly if you use a different

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:41:41PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote Hah, I wonder if that's because the script was written before the x86 and x86_64 architectures were merged in the kernel :) . I remember Heise reporting on that a few years back. Probably correct. The machine is approx 4 years

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:59:43PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: have a couple of of IBM clickety-clack 104-keyboard specials that were being thrown out by my former employer a few years ago. I love them. Had to leave mine in China when we moved back last year. If you want to get rid of one...

[gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Grant
What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:53:22PM -0800, Grant wrote What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. In

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 26, 2012 4:56 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I personally keep stage '3.5' containing pre-compiled 'must-haves'. And a '3.9' where the world has