gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread alex khalil
Good Folks If both x86 and PowerPC architecture are relevant, why would one prefer Gentoo over Debian? alex no-flamefest-intended-but-hopping-in-asbestos-suit khalil = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
optimization, speed, mazochistic notions :- That's about all. - Original Message - From: alex khalil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:12 AM Subject: gentoo vs debian Good Folks If both x86 and PowerPC architecture are

Re: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
grub root (hd2,0) setup (hd2) quit (My Gentoo install is on /dev/hdd, which comes out ad hd2 because of the CD burner on /dev/hdb). Then you just create an appropriate /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Have you created and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst ? Do you aware that hd2 is the 3rd

Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) - diego To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 9/21/2002 4:26 PM, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) I can download the ISOs to the server that I'll being with me. Some people said that they'll bring machines with a burner with them so we can make copies. If

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
yes i have it and i will bring it. Oleg. - Original Message - From: Diego Iastrubni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 4:26 PM Subject: Mandrake 9 in the install party? Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Amir Tal
On Saturday 21 September 2002 14:28, Oleg Kobets wrote: optimization, speed, mazochistic notions :- That's about all. specially the last one ;) if you are not into compiliing EVERYTHING from source, dont even think aoubt going there. optimization is a good reason, but be prepared to

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Eliran
Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) Can I bring an empty media and you will burn it for me ? (I won't bring a computer :-)) -- a href=http://www.rootshell.be/~eg;Eliran G/a

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Diego Iastrubni
áSaturday 21 September 2002 18:55, Sagi Bashari ëúá: BTW - what about empty medias? yes... what about empthy medias? which is better: me to bring medias for my own? or buy medias there? I understood hat there will be medias avilable there

Re: perl regex question

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
Gal Hammer wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote: Ah, I guess you don't realize what I am trying to do. There is an experimental feature in Perl that allows code to be executed within a regex, so that conditional statements can be built in. Such code is announced by (?{ and

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
alex khalil wrote: Good Folks If both x86 and PowerPC architecture are relevant, why would one prefer Gentoo over Debian? Me personally ? drop both and go with Mandrake - currently the best distro that does both architectures (Red Hat is the only other contender for the best distro for

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
Sagi Bashari wrote: On 9/21/2002 4:26 PM, Diego Iastrubni wrote: Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) I can download the ISOs to the server that I'll being with me. Some people said that they'll bring machines with a burner with them so

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 September 2002 01:41, you wrote: Hi fellows.. I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla kernel 2.4.19 I have used so far (in the last few months at least) RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel, but it seem my board

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:41:32AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi fellows.. I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla kernel 2.4.19 Been running various 2.4.19 related kernels here for quite some time, no problems detected. I have used so far (in the last

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:23:20AM +0300, Mark Veltzer wrote: It's better than 2.4.18 redhat but actually you're always better off using vanilla (the ugly driver code that RH puts in which rightly doesn't belong in the kernel isn't something you want even if you have the specific hardware).

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Polley
Actually, in this case, /dev/hdd IS hd2, because GRUB does not count hdb (because it is a CD burner, not a hard drive). (So actually, the first part of what you wrote is correct--hd2 IS the 3rd hard disk, which in my case is /dev/hdd.) Thanks for the input (and to Noam), but in the meantime I