> Compared with desktop not much power. ~400 dollars SoC without memory and Storage Disk, worthly spend of money

OK, I'll assume that English is your third language - no penalties.

Consider this:

http://www.compulab.co.il/about/company-history/

They've been in business since 1992 and are still ...

> these things have been always expensive.

Until now. And not fanless:

http://www.fanlesstech.com/

Anyhow, I'll bow out. I'm talking about REAL PC's (Intel/AMD) not toys with mobile phone CPUs.

> the revolution was a number of years ago.

Hmm. Well, I personally date it from the release of Intel's 14nm chips that allowed the first fanless boxes and mobos (Tuesday June 3, 2014 8:06 am PDT):

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/03/intel-broadwell-reference/

"Intel today showed off a new ...

> for heavy workload not enough mobile processors.

Nope. Celerons and the i3/i5/i7 lot. RTFM.

I posted an earlier thread about Mini-PCs and wasn't surprised to find that few understood the subject, since I only came across it myself by chance. Briefly, there is a revolution well underway as to what constitutes a "PC" that will probably take another year to hit mainstream media. I've archived ...

Found this online:

http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux ... edirect=on

Seems like a Brother laser might be the go!

> a Brother that does auto double sided printing on sale for $59.99.

At that price it would suit me nicely if it's Linux-friendly.

> there are third-party products for some existing printers that also provide similar bulk-ink functionality

Interesting, didn't know.

> I hardly print anything anymore

Yes, this is part of my dilemma.

> if the printer also solves all other issues going along with heavy use

One reason the ...

52midnight,
Epson usually provide binary blob drivers for their printers.
A long time ago it was a one size fits all driver.
I'm in the market for a new printer, so this came along just at the right time. Problem is I swore off Epson some years ago after two bad experiences. Have had good results ...

Epson has released a printer with refillable ink reservoirs. The original article is behind a paywall, so I've reposted it here:

http://52midnight.com/tmp/Epson_refillable_printer.html

The downside is having to pay the REAL cost of the printer, instead of an unrealistic discount to encourage ...

It does seems to be selecting the latest in the lex order, as xaviermiller suggested.

> It seemed that openoffice turned evil

It was taken over for a time by one of the American billionaires, barely escaped with its life, and has since been living in fear, or so I'm told.

> development of OpenOffice has pretty much ceased.

Hmm, well that's interesting.

> I just want an open ...

> writing the latest file in lexicographical order.

Yes, that's what appears to be happening. When it updates a file I created and named 'terminator-should-be-calibre' so that it wouldn't know about it, something's amiss!

No, wasn't aware the command existed. Machine busy, will post back tomorrow - +12hrs . Thanks.

> I started with the code way back when it was StarOffice on OS/2.

Now THAT brings back memories. Thought StarOffice was great back when.

BTW, there are binary packages for both OOo and libreOffice to save compiling them for anyone interested.

If I'm emerging sigil, either to /package.use/sigil or /package.use/_cfg0001-sigil

After emerging terminator and creating a file in /package.use/ I tried emerging calibre, to be met with a long list of changes. I accepted the default to write them to the USE file, but they got written to a config-change file 'cfg00001-terminator'.

I renamed this 'terminator-should-be-calibre' and ...

Been a while since I looked at Calibre. If is does PDFs then I'll definitely take a look. Thanks

I'm currently preparing a large, multi-file document for publication, and intend making it available in three formats:

- HTML for reading on the Net.
- EPUB for the modern eReaders.
- PDF for printed versions.

Given that I expect several revised versions in coming months, I want to automate the ...

Very interesting, and many thanks for the dependencies warning. I notice that OO is now Apache OO, that being both the licence and the support site, I suppose. Given OO's disadvantage, it might make them try a bit harder, so the balance may change.

Some may remember the kerfuffle a while back when the OOo project was taken over by commercial interests, resulting in the mass defection of project staff and setting up of the LibreOffice fork. The Evil Swindler responsible eventually gave it away, but we're now left with a duplicate project.

Does ...

Now that's REAL insider information - thanks. I've used package.mask to block eudev and udevs later than 215, but this insight could be useful down the track.

Thanks for that! On further reflection, it looks as if the system is wanting the latest versions, but trying to switch to eudev because they're not yet in the tree - ?

A new installation with everything up to Xorg installed without problems. Then 'emerge lxde-base/lxde-meta' lists three blocked packages:

eudev-3.1.2 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) eudev-1.3.0 etc
udev-220 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) udev-208 etc ...

VoidMage wrote:Well, as portage seems to be temporarily down, some of the data will likely need to be gathered manually...

Thanks for the tip. I got onto IRC and found the problem - needs a restart. Have marked this SOLVED.