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In future releases, Gentoo will focus on a more back-to-basics approach that will give you up-to-date install media on a ...

Both redhat and debian make it possible to ask for only security updates.
Gentoo doesn't have it.
Ever heard of glsa-check?
Glsa-check is an improvement, but still not enough. True security-only updates would require backporting of security patches.

glsa-check is provisional -- it's ...

I have three machines running Gentoo. One of them I sync just about every day. The others I sync whenever they are up. I run mostly ~x86 level software on all of them, with the exception of some critical things like GCC. It's pretty rare that I get into trouble with ~x86, and it's even rarer (now ...

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml


I just looked through the instructions. Why do you have to do *both* "emerge -e system" and "emerge -e world"?? Doesn't the "emerge -e world" emerge both system and the packages you've added onto system? It looks to me like you ...

ashrobo wrote:Can someone send me a copy of the kernel patch? www.polbox.com seems to be down...

Yeah ... it's still down as of this post. I have the patch for 2.6.11, but Portage now has 2.6.12! Is there a source for the patch to 2.6.12, or am I stuck at 11???

As some replies to the original article have pointed out, the rather primitive benchmark tests were fatally flawed by incorrect compile-time assumptions, among other things. I do this sort of thing (performance engineering, benchmarking, optimization, and capacity planning) for a living.

The flip ...

im not an expert but the configuration that you do have might be handy... one question though:
after you are booted up, does dhcpcd eth0 work, or does it time out again?

it may be a kernel problem... if that doesnt work at all..

killfire

Well ... since I posted, I managed to get it to come up ...

im not an expert but the configuration that you do have might be handy... one question though:
after you are booted up, does dhcpcd eth0 work, or does it time out again?

it may be a kernel problem... if that doesnt work at all..

killfire

Well ... since I posted, I managed to get it to come up ...

I have a system running Gentoo 2004.3 and synced daily. The current kernel is 2.4.25, and I'd like to move this system to 2.6. All of my other Gentoo boxes are on 2.6.

What's keeping me at 2.4 is the fact that this system is my "gateway". It connects to my cable modem and provides the router/NAT ...

2.4 kernel.
Been slowly coming to the same conclusion myself, that azureus is evil.
I changed to Sun hava, and there is some improvement.
It's almost as if azureus puts the drive into single user mode, and makes the dvd wait for data while it attends to it's business.
There are other things going ...

Cintra wrote:Used to be something called Ultrix

Yeah ... Digital's version of BSD, IIRC. Had the VMS math libraries but other than that was pretty much the same as BSD.

How can I put this?
My penguin is kinda grump.
It just seems miserable, and slow.

[snip]

Basic system is Athlon 1800+ 512MB ram. SiS based mobo.
All used to run happy ( pretty sure it was happy after the hardware changes too, as I remember burning some backups at a glorious 4x...and indeed I ...

1. Azureus is written in Java. It's distributed as a "jar" file. I think the source is available, but you'd need a JDK to rebuild.

2. I've had some issues with Azureus using the default Gentoo JRE, blackdown 1.4.1. To get Azureus to function reliably on my system, I found it necessary to download ...

I'm starting to explore catalyst, with the eventual goal of making my own LiveCD. The "requirements" for the LiveCD are:

1. It must work on i686 or higher. It does *not* have to work on any other architecture or anything older than i686 in the x86 family.

2. It must boot up in a desktop ...

I just did the switchover on the one machine I have that isn't running 2004.2. It looks to me like the fonts in xorg-x11 are much easier to read than the ones in xfree, at least on a 1024x768 laptop screen. Overall, everything looks crisper and clearer. Is it just my imagination?

I was browsing my Portage tree this morning and discovered this:

* app-emulation/vmware-workstation
Latest version available: 4.5.1.7568
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 39,870 kB
Homepage: http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
Description ...

Well.. that's the thing... the LiveCDs are supposed to be entirely net-free. Kind of defies the purpose having to download stuff. I haven't gotten very far with them and ended up using 1.4, reemerging the entire xfree and xfce. Works now... but a long way coming.

That was why I went for the new ...

Only the sources for the vanilla kernel are on the cd. But be aware, the newest ebuild is for version 2.4.25 and the sources have version 2.4.24. So you have to go to /usr/portage/sys-kernel/ . There you type in emerge vanilla-2.4.24.ebuild . I'm not sure if the file there is vanilla- so just do an ...

bruzzler wrote:I'm having the same problem, did you also realize that on the i686 packages cd there are no xfree and kde packages ?

Mine has KDE ... are you sure about that?

I just got my 2004.0 x86 Universal CD and i686 second CD. I tried following the stage 3 instructions, but I got to the place where I'm supposed to build the kernel, and none of the kernel sources appear to be on *either* CD! Do I have to download them separately, or are they "hidden" somewhere on ...

I have a Gentoo system that's built with all the default i686 packages. I'd like to "clone" this system to other i686 systems. What's the easiest way to do this? I don't want to recompile anything; I simply want to repartition the target disks and load compiled code. Then I'll be able to update the ...

Well ... I hope they printed enough CDs for both of us.

Ed Borasky
http://algocompsynth.com/

Adding mayavi should not be difficult. I have a look at it tonight, see what needs to be done.
Data vizualizers are quite interesting, what else?
I have scigraphica which I am fixing now (it has hardcoded requests for python 1.5 and that is why it segfaults). Any other? Suggestions are welcome ...

I'm slowly but surely migrating from Debian / Knoppix to Gentoo. In terms of "eyeball hours", I spend about 6 hours a day at work using Windows, both native and with CygWin. I managed to get CygWin KDE running yesterday, although it's slow. I haven't taken a shot at CygWin Portage yet, but will ...

I have Gentoo 1.4 running as a guest OS in VMWare Workstation 4.0 (main OS is Windows XP). There were only a few gotchas:

1. When you boot the CD, you have to add the "doscsi" option. VMWare's emulated disk drives in the VM are SCSI, not IDE.

2. When you go to load the VMWare tools, which allows ...