Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flags

2015-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step. Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread behrouz khosravi
Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step. Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:01 AM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step. Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote: I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested remains incompatible with European Directive

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/06/2015 15:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote: I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested remains

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 19:16:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 24/06/2015 19:35, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jun 24 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: One more thing I can add: From observation, I can say that Dell has 2 or more grades of kit they sell: 1. Cheap shit. You find these in

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Mick wrote: On Thursday 25 Jun 2015 16:06:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The XPS 13 at least is available as a Developer Edition that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. I dual boot windows and

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote: I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products and the refusal to cough up a refund when requested remains

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/06/2015 15:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:03 +0100, Mick wrote: I would seek a refund for the MSWindows OS that it comes preinstalled with. (This is a blatant case of software bundling with their products and the refusal

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 25 June 2015 at 14:56, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: The only issue I'd raise with LFS in this day and age is that many of these guides tend to leave out stuff like devtmpfs, udev, policykit, and so on. Some people choose not to use them (this list probably being one of the larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Gamböck
Am 25.06.2015 um 17:55 schrieb James: Ah. You are my new hero, dude! I'm glad I could help. :-) All that googling and news items; I guess I missed this doc... Actually there was a quite longish news item about that. New portage plug-in sync system from 2015-02-02. There was also a link to

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The XPS 13 at least is available as a Developer Edition that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. I dual boot windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my current

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-25 Thread Mick
On Thursday 25 Jun 2015 16:06:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The XPS 13 at least is available as a Developer Edition that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. I dual boot windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my

[gentoo-user] IcedTea-Web Plugin not working in firefox

2015-06-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
When trying to access a webpage that uses java applets, I found that the applets wouldn't load for me any more. I'm running: equery -q l '*tea*' dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.5 dev-java/icedtea-sound-1.0.1 dev-java/icedtea-web-1.5.1-r1 eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1]

[gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf

2015-06-25 Thread James
Florian Gamböck ml at floga.de writes: Actually there was a quite longish news item about that. New portage plug-in sync system from 2015-02-02. There was also a link to the said Wiki page. Yes I did and it did not work as noted. However, I did not have a default mask set correctly on

[gentoo-user] Re: IcedTea-Web Plugin not working in firefox

2015-06-25 Thread James
Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com writes: I have had some weirdness. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not and often it takes about 3-10 seconds for it to work. This is all on seamonkey. I've noticed, just not gotten around to debugging. When trying to access a webpage

[gentoo-user] Re: IcedTea-Web Plugin not working in firefox

2015-06-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: When trying to access a webpage that uses java applets, I found that the applets wouldn't load for me any more. I'm running: equery -q l '*tea*' dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.5 dev-java/icedtea-sound-1.0.1

[gentoo-user] Should www-plugins/adobe-flash have stable versions?

2015-06-25 Thread walt
This is cut/pasted from today's @RISK email from sans.org: Title: Adobe Releases Emergency to Patch Zero Day Under Active Exploitation in the Wild Description: Adobe released an out-of-band patch to address CVE-2015-3113, a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability that is actively being used by an

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2015 13:50, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: P.P.S. Also, on 1% better performance: My professor for the compilers class I took used to (maybe still does) work at Google. Apparently Google sees a 1% increase in performance as *the best thing ever*, because it can save them a bunch of money in

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:29:14 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I have moved to i3wm and USE=-* and it was not that hard. No one said it would be hard, just that it has great potential for breakage. That potential is still there. When the devs tweak default USE settings in ebuilds to make

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 24/06/2015 13:50, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: P.P.S. Also, on 1% better performance: My professor for the compilers class I took used to (maybe still does) work at Google. Apparently Google sees a 1% increase in performance as *the best thing ever*, because it can save

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2015 14:23, behrouz khosravi wrote: Here's some good advice: Don't do that. See below. Oops! I have done it and I am happy so far ! Wait a little longer :-) I predict within 2 weeks you'll be posting back about some completely baffling problem and we'll have a huge

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/06/2015 10:27, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 24/06/2015 13:50, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: P.P.S. Also, on 1% better performance: My professor for the compilers class I took used to (maybe still does) work at Google. Apparently Google sees a 1% increase in performance as *the best

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-25 Thread Mick
Oops! I seem to have missed sending this to the list instead of Andrew. On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 22:03:45 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 08:31:51 you wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:08:01 +0100 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/06/2015 06:25, Jc García wrote: 2015-06-24 6:23 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com: Here's some good advice: Don't do that. See below. Oops! I have done it and I am happy so far ! That's a bit of a nonsensical line of thought, as what you think you want doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Ralf
On 06/25/2015 01:29 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the guest... not particularly the smartest move, but it would account for every

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:47, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: On 06/25/2015 01:29 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-06-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 12:13:06 Alex Thorne wrote: I used to get the following error in /var/log/rc.log /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory I am not sure why this was happening, but I read that one fix was to disable lvmetad entirely. And so I set

Re: [gentoo-user] repos.conf

2015-06-25 Thread Florian Gamböck
Hi James, Am 24.06.2015 um 05:12 schrieb James: So is there a tool/interface where I type something like 'layman -a java' and it writes out the file to /etc/portage/repos.conf/new.conf You should take a look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync#layman-updater_Method. TLDR:

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-25 Thread Ralf
Oh, I forgot about the gtk and sdl displays... I'll test them together with QXL. Thanks for your hint! But anyways, I'll need two X servers when using this setup - one on the VM and one on the hypervisor. Shouldn't X11 forwarding be less overhead? Thank you Ralf On 06/25/2015 05:44 AM,