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On Sunday 18 July 2010 13:37:07 Djamel Ouerdi wrote: hello Hello to you too! I'm the jubjub monster from the western plains of Mars. Who be you? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sonntag 18 Juli 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the jubjub monster from the western plains of Mars. currently vacationing in sub-equatorial Africa?
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On Sunday 18 July 2010 14:14:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 18 Juli 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the jubjub monster from the western plains of Mars. currently vacationing in sub-equatorial Africa? Yup, that's right. Arrived for the World Cup, found I was 36 years too early and decided to just hang around and wait -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:27:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yup, that's right. Arrived for the World Cup, found I was 36 years too early and decided to just hang around and wait... Relativity really is a bitch, isn't it? -- Neil Bothwick If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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Mick writes: Let's see if this one gets through... Reading you loud and clear! I got your previous message just now, it seems with some delay. Yes. According to the headers my mail was received by my provider in normal time, but was delayed for half a day before it went out to robin.gentoo.org. Well, whatever. I just hope this does not happen again or at least too often. Sorry for the noise, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will the dvd have a ton of stuff? I see the live cd is only 200 meg, that seems kinda small. Be nice to see xvkbd in it for people who can't use their hands well. Just wondering. Alvin In gentoo the install cds are not a full on snapshot of all installable stuff. They contain the basic system in a few different configurations called stages. Current practice I believe is to use stage-3 even though others may be there. You are expected to have a working basic install first then you can get the portage tree (all the goodies you are asking about) installed and updated fairly effortlessly. Installation is well covered on gentoo.org under a documentation link with Installation in the title (don't remember off hand exact name) Browse thru that a bit and you'll have an idea how to do it. Its not the same as binary distributions like Fedora, mandrake etc. There are no ready made packages to just stick in other than the base install (stage-3). Every thing is compiled on gentoo. But it is automated and pretty easy to follow. Some things you may want to install like a full KDE install can take a very long time to compile... so be warned. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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On 3/6/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at gentoo about 2 years back when I wanted to switch from Mandrake, I went with Mepis and realy liked 3.3 but 3.4-3 doesn't seem as good. Don't like how they changed the reopositories. So I thought I'd look to gentoo again, and am please to see they're really making progress. Looks like there's a live cd with a graphical install from what I've read. Yeah, I tried it this weekend, damn good if you ask me. I tried an alternative way it provides, creating the stage3 dynamic with the packages in the livecd. 2 hours and I got a full working environment with X and all the stuff... 1 day later it was all configured and updated... I remember asking about a graphical frountend [like synaptit in Mepis] and was told we're working on it. How's it coming? Never heard of it, but I kinda like emerge command line style. I see it still leans heavly on Gnome but a KDE version is on it's way, that will help with popularity. I hate KDE (MHO, no flames please), but you're right, anyway, I guess you don't need kde for a graphical installer interface, I mean, Gnome loads in half the time and provides you what you need (don't get me wrong, Im a fluxbox user, so I hate Gnome as well). I have a Celleron 2.9 gig 80 gig hd X 2 and 160 gig sata Diamond Stealth P90 nvidia fx 5200 video, and winsurf tv card that likes to lock my systom up g and dsl. Will the dvd have a ton of stuff? I see the live cd is only 200 meg, that seems kinda small. Be nice to see xvkbd in it for people who can't use their hands well. I bet the LiveDVD will be awesome, I wonder if it will come with all the packages binaries updated, damn good for new installs, In about 3 hours you get a full working environment and start working while portage 15 nicened update everything else in the background. Just wondering. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Thanks for the replies guys. I like porthole. I redownloaded the iso [the size was just was just wrong] butnd the cd, rebooted. Everything seemed good as the systom loaded and the icons ticked off then just as Gnome should have appered the monitor said no video signal and went into powersaver mode. I guess Gentoo isn't quite upto the hardware detection yet. BTW it's an Emachines flat pannel w/ a diamond stealth P90 nvida fx 5200 chip. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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On 3/7/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies guys. I like porthole. I redownloaded the iso [the size was just was just wrong] butnd the cd, rebooted. Everything seemed good as the systom loaded and the icons ticked off then just as Gnome should have appered the monitor said no video signal and went into powersaver mode. I guess Gentoo isn't quite upto the hardware detection yet. BTW it's an Emachines flat pannel w/ a diamond stealth P90 nvida fx 5200 chip. Use CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to a console and use the command line installer, its as good as the GTK one. You can even try to fix this editing the configuration for X. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
