[gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one doubt. i am much more inclined towards using "simple" things, like simplicity in designing an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:04, arnuld wrote: > OK, i found Gentoo a great incident of my life :-), 10 installations > and on 11th time i knew what went wrong in last 10 times and from > there it never went wrong ;-). i want to use Gentoo but i have one > doubt. i am much more inclined towards usin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it too. oh. And you discovered what was going wrong in your first 10 installations, right? Can you tell if it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 arnuld wrote: > 1.) i had a Serial-ATA drive and AMD64 on ASUS with VIA chipsets. > kernel-compilation part of Handbook asks to choose PPP options and MCE [...] > other motherboards, Intel e.g., but we can leave that to the user for > finding the spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread arnuld
On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, none of those errors is Gentoo specific. It's kernel compilations problems, and you'll have those in any distribution. Even the binary ones, if you want to install a custom kernel. for the users that can't compile the kernel by himse

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
070518 arnuld wrote: >> On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices. >> If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. >> If you don't, you can do it too. > yep, 99% it was *my* mistake. > hey.. i did not blame Gentoo in my earlier post. Yes, G

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dale
arnuld wrote: > > i am talking of *both* methods. i don't remember anything *exactly* > but with genkernel i had exactly same weired problems when i didn't > choose VIA PATA in my kernel while compiling manually. i tried 2 times > and after that i quit generkernel and decided always to do a > trans

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:04:16 + arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to know whether Gentoo has "simplicity" or "KISS and clean" > structure in its design as an OS ? this is the only thing that is > stopping me from using Gentoo. Gentoo philosophy says *nothing* about > simplicity, it ta

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:26 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ? > Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most > people d

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
/etc/genkernel.conf MENUCONFIG="no" MRPROPER="no" CLEAN="no" BOOTSPLASH="no" SAVE_CONFIG="yes" DEBUGLEVEL=5 BOOTLOADER="grub" USECOLOR="yes" cd /usr/src/linux zcat /proc/config.gz > .config make oldconfig genkernel --kernname=WhateverFitsMyMood all the above gives you you the power to configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Kent Fredric
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 19. Mai 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > /etc/genkernel.conf > > MENUCONFIG="no" > MRPROPER="no" > CLEAN="no" > BOOTSPLASH="no" > SAVE_CONFIG="yes" > DEBUGLEVEL=5 > BOOTLOADER="grub" > USECOLOR="yes" > > > cd /usr/src/linux > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > make oldconfig > genkernel --kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Once you get used to it, you'll probably like Gentoo: most >> people do. Those who leave usually are very busy in their >> lives & simply don't have the time to keep it upto-date. > If a person does not wish to stay up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can't stand it anymore! Since the KISS word appeared on the subject line of gentoo-user I had this idea, and now you're gonna MAKE FUN OF ME, ok? For you, from the bottom of my geek mind and heart :P Tonight I'm gonna do a stage 1 fight... In th

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Dan Cowsill
LOL! On 5/19/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can't stand it anymore! Since the KISS word appeared on the subject line of gentoo-user I had this idea, and now you're gonna MAKE FUN OF ME, ok? For you, from the bottom of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Nick
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:50:17PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > For you, from the bottom of my geek mind and heart :P > > Tonight I'm gonna do a stage 1 fight... > In the darkness > There's so much i wanna MAKE... > And Tonight I wanna layman at your feet > Gentoo I was made for you >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:42:22AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > If a person does not wish to stay up to date, if they simply wish > to have a stable system, is getting busy really a reason to change > operating systems? If you're connecting to the internet, you *MUST* keep your system up to

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Walter Dnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:33 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ? > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:42:22AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 20 May 2007 02:33:24 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're connecting to the internet, you *MUST* keep your system up > to date, to maintain security. Not necessarily. You only have to update programs with known security holes. New versions are just as likely to i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-20 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nick wrote: > That was fantastic. Thank you. From the bottom of my geek mind and > heart, I thank you. I will complete it, and add some music to it. I guess the Audacity team will be clearly disturbed by me in the following days. > I read this to