Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Dale
Hund wrote: >> My biggest problem with Gentoo was not so much the time needed to >> compile huge ebuilds like Firefox, Thunderbird, or Chromium, but that >> say if you neglected doing updates for a while and then decided to start >> again, then you'd have serious problems. This is because, at

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal over ssh badly scrambled

2021-06-09 Thread Hund
>Some Google hits >suggested checking that "TERM" and locale match on both machines. They >do match on my systems. What next? What terminal emulator are you using and what did you set the $TERM to? Are you running any terminal multiplexer? -- Hund

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Hund
>My biggest problem with Gentoo was not so much the time needed to >compile huge ebuilds like Firefox, Thunderbird, or Chromium, but that >say if you neglected doing updates for a while and then decided to start >again, then you'd have serious problems. This is because, at least the >way I

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Marat BN
Chrome OS is made by Google to run specifically on the Chromebooks. I don't think it is intended for general computing and there is no enthusiast community around it like around other distros. The closest cousin to Gentoo would be Funtoo. It used to be that Gentoo Portage could only use

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal over ssh badly scrambled

2021-06-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 11:03:30PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 17:46:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Another item that may or may not be related... emerging Gentoo sources > > did not create a symlink from "linux-5.10.27-gentoo" to "linux", so I > > had to do it manually.

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal over ssh badly scrambled

2021-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 17:46:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Another item that may or may not be related... emerging Gentoo sources > did not create a symlink from "linux-5.10.27-gentoo" to "linux", so I > had to do it manually. I suppose I could've used "eselect kernel set 1" > instead. Do you

[gentoo-user] Terminal over ssh badly scrambled

2021-06-09 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm installing on a new machine. I much rather prefer doing it remote, so I can compare side by side with my current machine. But the terminal is badly scrambled. See attachment. Some Google hits suggested checking that "TERM" and locale match on both machines. They do match on my systems.