On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 06:05:44PM -0700, Joseph wrote:
> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would
> be too slow to compile anything.
> It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter
> version of Linux on it.
> What are my alternatives?
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon
>>> :
I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least
with a dot in the middle of
On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon
>> :
>>> I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least
>>> with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remem
On Sunday 08 February 2015 23:23:34 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at
> > > > least
> > > > with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if
> > > > the
> > > > digit is
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 18:05
schrieb Joseph :
> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo,
> it would be too slow to compile anything. It is running Ubuntu 11.10
> and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version of Linux on it.
> What are my alternatives?
>
> I'll
150208 Joseph wrote:
> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo :
> it would be too slow to compile anything.
I've just successfully updated my 1005 Ha , bought in 2009.
Gcc-4.8.3 took 3 h 35 m to compile. I avoid KDE Firefox LO .
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 18:05:44 -0700, Joseph wrote:
> I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it
> would be too slow to compile anything.
I had one of those when they weren't so old. It will definitely run
Gentoo, in fact the configurability of Gentoo makes it good for l
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 19:54:07 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> By accident during my update of my ASUS EEE (now successfully
> completed), I discovered that it connects automatically to the Internet
> when the physical connection is plugged in,
> while my desktop machine (AMD + Gigabyte mobo) has to be t
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:37:31 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Has anyone ever pointed out that "init thingy" actually takes more
> effort to type than "initramfs" or "initrd"?
But less than "initramfs or initrd". How about init*?
Or is this another reason not to use one? ;-)
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Neil Bothwick
I have an old Asus EEE PC 1000 and I don't think it will run Gentoo, it would
be too slow to compile anything.
It is running Ubuntu 11.10 and I think I'll need to re-install lighter version
of Linux on it.
What are my alternatives?
I'll would like to run VPN, some browser on it and skype.
--
J
By accident during my update of my ASUS EEE (now successfully completed),
I discovered that it connects automatically to the Internet
when the physical connection is plugged in,
while my desktop machine (AMD + Gigabyte mobo) has to be told by 'dhcpcd'.
The netbook's syslog reports (my comments m
On 2/8/2015 10:35 AM, Dale wrote:
would build correctly, both compile and create the init thingy. So, I
now have a couple kernels that have a init thingy, testing with that,
Has anyone ever pointed out that "init thingy" actually takes more
effort to type than "initramfs" or "initrd"?
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least
> > > with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the
> > > digit is the fat one or the thin one
> >
> > It's the same with me. :-)
>
> I'd hav
On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon
> :
> > I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least
> > with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the
> > digit is the fat one or the thin
Dale wrote:
> Planning to test them here shortly. Then to see how long before it
> flunks the test, like last time I used this thing. I also realized I
> have a spare 750GB drive to. That could come in handy. ;-) Thanks.
> Dale :-) :-)
Well, it seems this went fairly well. I saw dracut stuff fl
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30
schrieb Alan McKinnon :
> On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >
> >>> I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the
> >>> slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:06:21 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> From the Changelog:
>>>
>>> At the request of QA team the use of DRACUT_MODULES use-expand has
>>> been removed as well as run-time (pseudo-suggested) dependencies.
>>> Instead, the list of suggested dependencies is prin
On 08/02/2015 11:54, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> from Michael Vetter:
>
>> just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most
>> interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc.
>
>> paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment
>> and pkgsrc because of t
On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>>> I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the
>>> slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove
>>> it.
>
>> I've always been puzzled by that form of
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:16:31 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > It dates back to the days when fonts were much coarser and it was the
> > only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital o. Less
> > useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it.
>
> Yes, I know, but I can't see why
On Sunday 08 February 2015 11:00:47 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the
> > > slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove
> > > it.
> >
> > I've always been puzz
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the
> > slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove
> > it.
> I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it
> started causing m
> from Michael Vetter:
> just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most
> interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc.
> paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment
> and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for
> mul
On Sunday 08 February 2015 01:16:58 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the
> slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it.
Yes.
I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it
started causing me di
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:06:21 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > From the Changelog:
> >
> > At the request of QA team the use of DRACUT_MODULES use-expand has
> > been removed as well as run-time (pseudo-suggested) dependencies.
> > Instead, the list of suggested dependencies is printed in postinst
> > log
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 17:19:29 -0700, Joseph wrote:
> >1) Don't leave it so long between upgrades.
>
> I usually try not to exceed 2-months between upgrades.
> I think this is a reasonable time.
If you are getting too many upgrades at once, maybe it isn't. If you
are leaving it that long, I hope
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