Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On 31 May 2011 14:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster > did opine thusly: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin >> > >> > O'Gorman did opine thusly: >> > > It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:30 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin > > > > O'Gorman did opine thusly: > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin > O'Gorman did opine thusly: > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel > > a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > I know how you feel :-) > > I've tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da > Veiga > did opine thusly: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel >

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > > > So,

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > So, since I am familiar with Ubuntu from work, and have it on a couple of > laptops, I'm installing from the Ubun

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 15:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman > did opine thusly: > >> It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine.  I feel a >> little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > I know how yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Friday 27 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. I know how you feel :-) I've tried to get away from Gentoo several times,

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 > schrieb "Kevin O'Gorman" : > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > > > A few months ago, an update made the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > ... > > * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. > They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being > made, so the clock speed is 1.6 G

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 27 May 2011 11:55:48 Mick wrote: > ... may I recommend SystemRescueCD. It is updated more often, has the > latest drivers and pretty much works better that the Gentoo LiveCD (most > of the time). Another point in its favour is that it starts RAID and LVM itself, which saves a fair bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 schrieb "Kevin O'Gorman" : > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no > longer bring up X but I coul

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 May 2011 05:31:15 Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields > > > > wrote: > > You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your > > system scare you away? > > > > Have you tried u

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread BRM
From: Mark Shields > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 9:57:26 PM >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo > > >On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Stroller
On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > ... > * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. They > are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being made, > so the clock speed is 1.6 GHz. On 4 cores, it's not bad at all. I *think* at tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine.  I feel a > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no > longer bring up X but I could use t

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields > wrote: You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your system scare you away? Have you tried using an older live cd? If it's a video issue, maybe detecting yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a >> little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. >> >> A few months ago, an update made the machine headl

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. > > A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no > longer bring up X but I could use

[gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no longer bring up X but I could use the console-mode for admin, and log in via SSH from my laptop and