RE: Changing CFLAGS under Gentoo

2005-05-20 Thread Maurice Butler (Like Magic)
Hi, The -pipe speeds the compile up if you have enough ram so swapping does not occur(on my machine just cli no x 128meg was enough). Also with the 2.6.x kernel it also pays to have the -fstack-check flag set for any machine exposed to the net. This is due to a problem with the large memory manag

Re: Changing CFLAGS under Gentoo

2005-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
it speeds up compilation. your gentoo system will do lots of complation, CFLAGS refers to stuff you do via emerge, not with java/python from the commandline. I believe that pipe does not change the binaries produced, only the way they are produced internally by the compiler. Therefore it should b

Changing CFLAGS under Gentoo

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Hello, I have been using these flags in my /etc/make.conf since the last installfest: CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" Now I found these flags under "http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Opteron.2FAthlon64_.28AMD.29": CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" In man gcc I

Re: SoftMaker Office for Linux

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I can however say that planmaker is better than kspread, which is dowright unusable (and that's putting it exceedingly politely), and LaTeX, which will get you into a mental institution before you're done making a functional spreadsheet. Yes, I have almost experienced that. There is however one

Re: Yellow Dog Linux anyone?

2005-05-20 Thread Kim Robertson
Hi Alex, I have a copy of the 4.0 CDs but not the 4.0.1. Though if u want them, between us we could download them. If you don't get any other offers please contact me offlist, I am also looking at getting the 4.0.1 isos. From Kim On 20/05/2005, at 10:54 PM, Alexandre Bec wrote: Hi there, I was

Re: Yellow Dog Linux anyone?

2005-05-20 Thread Kim Robertson
Hi Alex, I have a copy of the 4.0 CDs but not the 4.0.1. Though if u want them, between us we could download them. If you don't get any other offers please contact me offlist, I am also looking at getting the 4.0.1 isos. From Kim On 20/05/2005, at 10:54 PM, Alexandre Bec wrote: Hi there, I was w

Yellow Dog Linux anyone?

2005-05-20 Thread Alexandre Bec
Hi there, I was wondering if someone around here had already downloaded the Yellow Dog Linux ISO cds for PowerPCs, and for mini ones as well... It's quite a big chunk of data to download from home and from work, and getting it shipped from YDL would cost me my left eye... I'd rather have to b

Re: projectors, desktops and distros

2005-05-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
[ Laptop external VGA output + projectors - this article here http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14885.html ] After having a short discussion with a SuSE developer, it transpires that they expect a projector on a laptop VGA output to just work, by switching the external VGA to display the

Re: SoftMaker Office for Linux

2005-05-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Have you tried it? Is it better than OOo, SO, KOffice or LaTeX? Haven't tried it myself (don't have it) - here's your chance to be first ;) I can however say that planmaker is better than kspread, which is dowright unusable (and that's putting it exceedingly politely), and LaTeX, which will get

Re: SoftMaker Office for Linux

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Have you tried it? Is it better than OOo, SO, KOffice or LaTeX? I am pleased that there are people producing good commercial software (of course not in the sense of morally good, using commercial software is always a sin ;) ) for GNU/Linux, especially at this price. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Softma