On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Canek - good to hear from you.
Hi. [snip] > So as an end user type I'm a little confused by this part of your > response. When you say udev is 'part of systemd' do you mean at the > project level? That's what I understand from your longer response > below. Yeah, udev is part of systemd: [1]. [snip] > Good to know and I've already read a little more about it and enabled > it in my kernel. Good. [snip] > Humm. OK, so I've updated my main spinning rust kernel for FHANDLE. No > problems there. sysvinit/OpenRC/udev. All good. Good. > As I write this I'm in my SSD backup Gentoo install. I haven't used it > in awhile so I'm emerging 668 packages. System setup as above but > maybe I'll consider switching this one to systemd just as a trial. At > this time it's not important on my personal machines. However my 86 > year old father is the last Gnome holdout in the family. I've not > updated his box in quite awhile (cognitive issues, fewer GUI changes > are better for him) However if I do update then it will likely be > Gnome so having at least a little experience with systemd might be > good. If your father is still using GNOME 2, GNOME 3 could be almost traumatic. Perhaps you could try MATE? It's going into the tree soon, i believe. Or Xfce. [snip] > Done, no noticeable impact after 20 minutes. All good. Good. [snip] > Again, THANKS for a wonderful response with lots of good information. > We're lucky to have you as one of the long-time Gentoo guys. I for one > greatly appreciate what little I understand. :-) Thank you. Regards. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
