Re: [gentoo-user] Why is my computer using swap?

2003-03-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
9B > Interested in public-key cryptography? http://www.gnupg.org/ > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do patches work?

2003-03-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
you know if I can use LSM and SELinux with the gentoo kernel? Thanks. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] how do patches work?

2003-03-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
patches from different sources. And I'm interested in both. Is it possible to get both sets of changes? On a somewhat related note: Does the gentoo kernel already contain the LSM kernel patch? Thanks for the help. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. Universi

[gentoo-user] Which stage tarball should I choose?

2003-03-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
but with stage3 you just install pre-compiled binaries just like all the other Linux distributions. Am I right? Thanks for the help. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
> > Not entirely true. The toolkits can be implemented to use threading > "well", "poorly", or not at all. Alright, that's not the question I thought he was asking. Af for the toolkits themselves, I think that they are both good, but I don't have any d

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
ged of that. You can make a GUI that hangs or one that doesn't hang just as easily in each. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
ostly Gnome/Gtk applications. They look more in-place in Gnome. I prefer to program in Gtk than Qt. Things like that. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use

2003-03-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
I really like Ruby-Gnome2 : http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/ That's what I use for my GUI programs. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Q] System security -- root access

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
l > partition and don't allow write access - or don't even mount it. Do I need /boot mounted to boot the system? Can I just comment out the '/boot ...' line in /etc/fstab? -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
#x27;t have a "run" button to execute them. That's okay, you don't need one. Just keep a terminal open and run it from there. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what Programming tools are there to use

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
ogramming was just trial and error. Do you already know how to program? Do you have your heart set on a particular language? Knowing this will help me answer your question. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
sktop working, you might be interested in the ALSA configuration guide (sound): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [Q] System security -- root access

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
ld not be able to access any of the truly crucial components of the system. Would this be a good idea? Thanks for the help. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
er everyone does right now. Once almost everyone is in LSB, you can move them, in steps, towards a more optimal system. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up advice. Computer trade in.

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
gzimp backup_home.tar 2b) Copy backup_home.tar.gz to the server. 2c) rm backup_home.tar.gz ... You get the idea. On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:19:40PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:12:40PM -0500, John H wrote: > > Darn, I probably should have mentioned that

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up advice. Computer trade in.

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
to go then. Good luck again. > > > > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > >HHmm... is the server running Windows? I assume it is. I don't know much > >about Windows. I will offer a suggestion that would probably work on a > >Unix server. Perhaps you can us

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up advice. Computer trade in.

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
0 gig hd split appx 50-50 windows 200/ gentoo 1.4 > firewire cd drive > > Thanks to all. > Gentoo is great! > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
en slowly move to make it more complete and if possible, closer to the ideal. This is the kind of thing that is discussed in the LSB-Future mailing list. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
er. In other words, though I agree that your idea of adding /usr/pkg and making Gnome, KDE, etc lie in it, is likely the best hierarchy, there are other considerations why the LSB should not implement it (i.e. no one would be compliant). There is an LSB-Future project. I wonder if they'll c

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation docs

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:15:50PM +0100, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:08, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > I'll send it to you off-list. > > > > I just sent him a ps and pdf version. Oh well, now he has an extra copy. :-) Daniel Carrera Graduate Teac

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation docs

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
n attachment file. > > > >Many Thanks > >Ragu -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
guess that all that can be done is change the FHS. I'll post an email to the LSB-Future mailing list tomorrow. They are currently discussing what to do about KDE and Gnome. Perhaps a not-too-distant version of the LSB will offer a solution. Thanks for clarifying all this. -- Daniel C

Re: [gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-03-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
#x27;ve looked at the FHS section on /opt and I don't see what's wrong with /opt/gnome and /opt/kde. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging openoffice fails

2003-03-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
gt; > dessimat0r root # > > I did emerge dmake, but it seems to have made no difference. > > Thanks for any help ;) > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf CFLAGS

2003-03-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
are identical, only difference is that the Athlon has more cache. I would be surprised if the -mathlon-xp optimization used the infomation about the cache. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Hardware support and configuration

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Carrera
But I don't want to feel like I have to wrestle the system to get anything done. Thanks for the help, -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] LSB compliance

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
roblem. If the Gentoo has KDE in /usr/kde/2 and /usr/kde/3, and LSB doesn't allow /usr/kde, why don't we just move /usr/kde to /usr/share, so we would make: /usr/share/kde/2 /usr/share/kde/3 I'm sure that this question just demonstrates my ignorance of LSB and Gentoo, but hec

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on Gentoo

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
le and unsupportable. What exactly is the problem with Gentoo's LSB compliance? Once again, thanks for the responses. Gentoo does look amazing. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Opinions on Gentoo

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
o, and any information would be much appreciated. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list