Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
What are love-sources?
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Unsupported Software
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Duck-Billed Platypus
Guru
Guru


Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 576
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:55 am    Post subject: What are love-sources? Reply with quote

What are love-sources? This is as far as I know...
sourceforge.net wrote:
Love-Sources is a highly tuned experimental desktop kernel.

How different are they from gentoo-sources, etc.? Why are they called love-sources? Is an ebuild available for it? Or am I just thinking of it in the wrong way?
_________________
Dentists are evil.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
shm
Advocate
Advocate


Joined: 09 Dec 2002
Posts: 2380
Location: Atlanta, Universe

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's named after Lovechild, who was the original author if it. Its is much more experimental than gentoo-sources, which tends to only add very production-ready patches.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
frippz
Guru
Guru


Joined: 22 Aug 2002
Posts: 460
Location: Sweden

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really now... Gentoo sources aren't even in the same bracket as love-sources if you ask me. It's more likely to be found somewhere around the mm-sources territory, so to speak.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kezza
n00b
n00b


Joined: 11 Dec 2002
Posts: 49

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

...and some of the Gentoo developers seem to have got their knickers in a twist over them:

ciaranm wrote:
love sources is a horridly buggy piece of cowboy-code trash that causes no end of problems.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
joem
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 20 Dec 2002
Posts: 508
Location: Bloomington, In

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

join #love-sources on freenode or check them out here

http://www.linuxmall.us/~lovepatch/love-sources/
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
blaksaga
Guru
Guru


Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 461
Location: Omaha, NE, USA

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My girlfriend is a lovesource. :P
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Herodot
Guru
Guru


Joined: 29 Jul 2002
Posts: 429
Location: Professor Xavier's school for gifted youngsters

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blaksaga wrote:
My girlfriend is a lovesource. :P

Is there a public CVS?
_________________
Excelsior!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
neenee
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 20 Jul 2003
Posts: 1786

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovechild wrote:
Love-sources was mainly meant to get a good 2.6 kernel for
the desktop. we ship runtime selectable IO schedulers, the Nick
Piggin Scheduler Policy patch and a few other goodies - it's
based on the -mm kernel so it has all the goodies Andrew is
shipping as well as any patches flowing around on lkml right
after an -mm release to handle compile problems, etc.


also, the latest versions have the latest alsa version and
the vesa_fb hack for higher refresh rates when using the
framebuffer device with an nvidia card, as well as reiser4,
sometimes the evil supermount and more..

why not give it a whirl? it might be love at first site :wink:
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Yen
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 19 Oct 2003
Posts: 107
Location: Lummen, Belgium

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Love-sources is the best kernel patchset i've ever used :)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
ebrostig
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 20 Jul 2002
Posts: 3152
Location: Orlando, Fl

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a YAK, Yet Another Kernel.

Erik
_________________
'Yes, Firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
frippz
Guru
Guru


Joined: 22 Aug 2002
Posts: 460
Location: Sweden

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not that I condone the use of love-sources, but aren't all kernels YAK?
Except maybe vanilla... ;)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
homeobocks
Guru
Guru


Joined: 19 Dec 2003
Posts: 345
Location: I'm from Canada, and they say I'm a little slow . . . eh?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Love-sources is very aggressive (and experimental) in memory management (read: IT ROCKS!).
_________________
HOW DO I SHOT WEB
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
dalu
Guru
Guru


Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Posts: 530

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:
My girlfriend is a lovesource. :P

Is there a public CVS?


hehehe
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Gibberx
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 20 Oct 2002
Posts: 217
Location: UMBC

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:
My girlfriend is a lovesource. :P

Is there a public CVS?
perhaps your mom... :P
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Brother Dysk
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 29 Sep 2003
Posts: 131
Location: Hong Kong SAR PRC

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can jokes get any more lame? I think that was beyond being a paralpalegic joke - straight into totally paralysed vegetable!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
homeobocks
Guru
Guru


Joined: 19 Dec 2003
Posts: 345
Location: I'm from Canada, and they say I'm a little slow . . . eh?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Herodot wrote:
blaksaga wrote:
My girlfriend is a lovesource. :P

Is there a public CVS?
Spelling error: should be "pubic CVS." :P
_________________
HOW DO I SHOT WEB
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
senectus
Guru
Guru


Joined: 17 Jul 2003
Posts: 534

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it uses "supermount" 8O 8O 8O





I still have no idea why this is supposed to be bad :P
_________________
2800+XP A7N8X FX6600GT
www.modmeup.net |
Belief is 9/10 of YOUR reality.
Wise man say: A skilled troll is a master baiter.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Jefklak
l33t
l33t


Joined: 26 Oct 2003
Posts: 818
Location: Belgium

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too much patches and stuff wich makes it unstable?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
steel300
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 1155

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jefklak wrote:
Too much patches and stuff wich makes it unstable?


It's not too many patches that make it unstable. It's the patches that actually make it into love-sources that are ustable. Love-sources includes patches that need a testing ground and can't find it anywhere else. Because they aren't as developed as the mainstream kernel, they wil be slightly unstable.
_________________
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Unsupported Software All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum