Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:41:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally see no reason for encrypting root as there is nothing of interest in there. No passwords in /etc? The main reason I encrypt / is that wicd keeps its passwords in /etc. I substitute with symlinks to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I don't think that's right. I have a Pandaboard ES with a dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM and I bet it would run Gnome just fine. Again, maybe you're referring to something here that I'm not familiar with. I think the key word was micro, but is that off topic (ignoring subject)? Many (such

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira
I believe NUMA is only used on multiprocessor machine and not on only multicore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access 2012/12/13 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 13.12.2012 07:23, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Rafa Griman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com wrote: I believe NUMA is only used on multiprocessor machine and not on only multicore. NUMA's about memory access so it's about cores/CPUs/processors/whatever_you_want_to_call_it and how they access

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:00:09PM -0800, Grant wrote When you say embedded kernels you may mean something I'm not familiar with, but I use a patched vanilla kernel with Gentoo on the Beaglebone and it works great. No uclibc and no busybox. I'm thinking more along the lines of ADSL

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:51:15PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like ARM's low power consumption. An update to my earlier response. A slasdot article at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 01:06:23PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 13, 2012 12:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It's nice to see a chip designer not falling into the intel trap of trying to rape every customer for every last cent they have! Don't get me started on

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:44:45AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: NUMA is also an option in the kernel. Should also be fully transparent. I got one machine with NUMA and only had to set an option for it. Does anyone know how to check it's working properly? dmesg | grep NUMA -- Happy Penguin

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-13 Thread Trevor D. Manning
I'm interested also, thanks good sir * Kevin Chadwick (ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk) wrote: I can send you the source code if you want. Likewise to any other interested reader Send to me please, Thanks -- Trevor D. Manning BOFH Excuse #98: The vendor put the bug there.

[gentoo-user] eudev

2012-12-13 Thread James
Upon syncing, my system wants to upgrade to eudev. [blocks B] sys-fs/udev (sys-fs/udev is blocking sys-fs/eudev-0) Not much out there; but I gleaned it is for those that insist on a separate partition for /var and /usr. Any other motivating reasons? equery depends eudev * These packages

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU.  I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs.   NUMA is specialization, imho:

[gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/sdcard baselayout bash openssh chrony) which is of course after setting up

[gentoo-user] Re: Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:28:35 PM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.12.2012 07:12, schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of complications does that add to set up and/or maintenance

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 22:12:18 schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of complications does that add to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 02:40:04 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:20:55PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: * From my observations, the benefit of 64 bit over 32 is much smaller for an Atom than it is for my Core2. Am I right to assume thus that the Atom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 19:33:58 schrieb Walter Dnes: It would be interesting to see a micro port of Gentoo. But you can forget about bringing over KDE-OS, GNOME-OS, or CHROME-OS. If/when gnash is finally ready, or HTML replaces Flash, I could see Gentoo running with ICEWM or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/sdcard baselayout bash

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address

2012-12-13 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:33:56 +1100, Trevor D. Manning wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig and ppp0 address: I'm interested also, thanks good sir * Kevin Chadwick (ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk) wrote: I can send you the source code if you want. Likewise to any other interested reader

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Friday 14 December 2012 03:38 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Friday 14 December 2012 11:22:52 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Friday 14 December 2012 03:38 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Grant
I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of complications does that add to set up and/or maintenance with Gentoo? No complication.

[gentoo-user] {OT} dedicated server or cloud server?

2012-12-13 Thread Grant
Would everyone here be in favor of a dedicated server over a cloud server from a host with good cloud infrastructure? The cloud server concept is amazing but from what I'm reading a dedicated server at the same price point far outperforms it. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Rafa Griman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:55 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Rafa Griman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 22:12:18 schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably