Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to > compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared > to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? > > Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/3/15 Mick > On Friday 15 Mar 2013 01:18:03 Francisco Ares wrote: > > Hello. > > > > During some months now, this machine was (and still is, sometimes) > > suffering from a strange progressive lock down. It always has begun with > > the web browser, passing to the whole X environment, and fin

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/3/15 Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:18:03 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > This machine is a dual-boot Linux/Windows, as my wife once in a while > > needs to work on a Windows O.S. . The lock down starts when she saves > > a file received by e-mail in a ntfs-3g mounted partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/3/15 Randolph Maaßen > 2013/3/15 Francisco Ares > >> Hello. >> >> During some months now, this machine was (and still is, sometimes) >> suffering from a strange progressive lock down. It always has begun with >> the web browser, passing to the whole X environment, and finally I could >> not

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/15/2013 04:34 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On 03/16/2013 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: >> On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > From the headers of his email: > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros > References: <51418728.7020...@gma

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 Mar 2013 20:34:14 Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On 03/16/2013 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: > I understand that you can specify what sort of mail format you want to send > per email recipient, including of course , > but I don't have T'bird installed to check: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pl

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2013 23:23, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:33:16AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote >> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:37:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >>> For anybody who's reading this thread... you *MUST* use the "tools" >>> flag with kmod in order to get basic stuff like a man pa

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:23:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > The tools flag is enabled by default in the kmod ebuild, so only > > those who choose to deliberately break their system with USE="-*" so > > they can spend time fixing it will be affected. > > I did try installing on that netbook wit

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:33:16AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:37:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > For anybody who's reading this thread... you *MUST* use the "tools" > > flag with kmod in order to get basic stuff like a man page, lsmod, etc. > > The tools flag is enab

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On 03/16/2013 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote: From the headers of his email: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros References: <51418728.7020...@gmail.com> In

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 Mar 2013 17:36:48 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > From the headers of his email: > > > > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros > > > References: <51418728.7020...@gmail.com> > > > In-Reply-To: <51418728.7020...@gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/html; ch

Re: [Bulk] Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > > From the headers of his email: > > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros > > References: <51418728.7020...@gmail.com> > > In-Reply-To: <51418728.7020...@gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > I

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my > > question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the > > specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros > > don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages which is no > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-03-15 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-15, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm especially interested in how best to test for the existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't. From /etc/rsnapshot.conf: # If no_create_roo

[gentoo-user] Re: rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-15, Tanstaafl wrote: > Would anyone who is using rsnapshot be willing to share their crontab > entries? # crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.fEjZZL installed on Thu May 26 14:47:04 2011) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread covici
Tanstaafl wrote: > Would anyone who is using rsnapshot be willing to share their crontab > entries? > > I'm especially interested in how best to test for the > existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the > backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't. I don't run rsnapsh

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-14, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-03-14, Dale wrote: >> >>> I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to >>> compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared >>> to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? >> I just did a test, and

[gentoo-user] rsnapshot - crontab?

2013-03-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Would anyone who is using rsnapshot be willing to share their crontab entries? I'm especially interested in how best to test for the existence/availability of a remotely mounted filesystem, and run the backup if it exists and abort if it doesn't. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Mick
On Friday 15 Mar 2013 01:18:03 Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello. > > During some months now, this machine was (and still is, sometimes) > suffering from a strange progressive lock down. It always has begun with > the web browser, passing to the whole X environment, and finally I could > not even use

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-15, Dale wrote: > I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my > question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the > specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros > don't allow this, unless you compile your own packa

Re: Email encodings (was Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros )

2013-03-15 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On 03/14/2013 11:17 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:29:54PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> http-equiv="Content-Type"> >>> >>> >>> On 03/14/2013 04:15 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:47:49 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > >> > There's no need to rebuild everything, and those other flags make no >> > sense when using -e. Generally you only need >> > >> > emerge -uaD --changed-use @world >> > >> >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:37:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > For anybody who's reading this thread... you *MUST* use the "tools" > flag with kmod in order to get basic stuff like a man page, lsmod, etc. The tools flag is enabled by default in the kmod ebuild, so only those who choose to deliberatel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:47:49 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > There's no need to rebuild everything, and those other flags make no > > sense when using -e. Generally you only need > > > > emerge -uaD --changed-use @world > > > > I know that, in general principle. But it's a test environment.

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:18:03 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > This machine is a dual-boot Linux/Windows, as my wife once in a while > needs to work on a Windows O.S. . The lock down starts when she saves > a file received by e-mail in a ntfs-3g mounted partition, so that file > would also be access

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:52:41PM -0500, Dale wrote > I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for > my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to > the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary > distros don't allow this, unless

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs-3g problem (I suppose) - locking system

2013-03-15 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/3/15 Francisco Ares > Hello. > > During some months now, this machine was (and still is, sometimes) > suffering from a strange progressive lock down. It always has begun with > the web browser, passing to the whole X environment, and finally I could > not even use a console. > > After severa

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:07:01AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > It was actually modutils that was masked out and replaced with > modutils. This had not kicked in yet on the install image I was using > on the netbook. I had to unmerge virtual/modutils and modutils, then I > was able to emerge kmo

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:30:43PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > >> Is my netbook dying, or is something else wrong? This is an older > >> 32-bit Atom netbook, with > >> CFLAGS="-