Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: > Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see > if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, > someday. > Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see > if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, > someday. > Alvin I've trying to help you at the "My screen goes off on boot" t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Peter van Eck
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where > the icons dissapear as stuff l

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: > It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage > where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the > monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and > nofb didn't help. > > Like I said some day Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to F

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
> Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't > try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As som

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Moser, Dan
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now > > > Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old &

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. You're right, Gentoo is not 'stable' [1], and it never will be stable. It is functional and reliable however. But you need to know linux, your hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
--- Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD > and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT > for you. Also, there is no reason to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Antoine
> Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you > have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that > can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if > gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have > so

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 19:44 schrieb A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman: > Bill Gates can sleep good...they even have voice software [8=) Stop trolling and grow up. -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: > As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they > had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard "assumption" that "non-geek"="normal" -- with "geek" being defined by these so-call

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> -Original Message- > From: Moser, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:44 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Dave Moor

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
> But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of > a fun Friday night. Well said. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ 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+ --

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
-- "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so > compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of > needing to speed up my deployment. My only complaint with the compiled > installation is that i

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:32 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: > > As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they > > had something I [a normal person] could use > > You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard "assumption" > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: > Amen to that. The US government has labelled me "mentally disabled", > and I still managed to successfully install Gentoo on three different > PCs... If someone like me can do it, anyone can. Well, maybe you've *GOT* to be mentally disabled to be able to install and

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD > > and a pile of docs for your fi