Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Jason Melton wrote: > I really dislike the "Stage 4" / "Stage 5" terminology, because that feels > way too gentoo-specific. Sure, we can drop the 'stage X' name but we should refer to it in the introduction.

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
>> Haha yes, we have information on backing up, but I was specifically >> referring to Stage 5 backup. >> >> > I don't mind the idea of documenting a comprehensive system backup/restore > scheme or two. > > I really dislike the "Stage 4" / "Stage 5" terminology, because that feels > way too gentoo-

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jason Melton
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Karol Blazewicz > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Jonathan Vasquez > > wrote: > >> What it has to do with Arch is more information inside the wiki. > > > > We do have > > https://wiki.archlinu

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> What it has to do with Arch is more information inside the wiki. > > We do have > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backup#Not_incremental_backups > "Just copy everything int

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > What it has to do with Arch is more information inside the wiki. We do have https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backup#Not_incremental_backups "Just copy everything into one big archive, but support writing to cd/dvd"-type :-)

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
> And what it has to do with archwiki? Isn't anything on gentoo wiki? > Anyway, I've heard about something like that last time I used a gentoo > (say, about 2 years ago). The main purpose was to backup the basic > system, and help deploying it on machines sharing the same > config/hardware. > -- >

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Ivan Sichmann Freitas
> So for the past few days I've been playing with Gentoo and Funtoo. > I've learned a lot. I learned about something called Stage 4 and 5, > which you can basically do to your system in order to make a backup > copy of it, and put it in a tarball. I don't see any Wiki pages for > this, so I was thi

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
> If you mean it as a way to backup your system, sure, why not. > There have been some ideas on the forum about creating a tar "install > package" that you just untar to have a working Arch, but I've never > seen a working example. > > You can move your packages to the new computer in order to avoi

Re: [arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > So for the past few days I've been playing with Gentoo and Funtoo. > I've learned a lot. I learned about something called Stage 4 and 5, > which you can basically do to your system in order to make a backup > copy of i

[arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
Hello everyone, So for the past few days I've been playing with Gentoo and Funtoo. I've learned a lot. I learned about something called Stage 4 and 5, which you can basically do to your system in order to make a backup copy of it, and put it in a tarball. I don't see any Wiki pages for this, so I

[arch-general] it just works

2012-01-10 Thread Peter Nikolic
Well I have just tried the laptop with Arch Linux installed at my car club meeting where we have some 50" LCD TV's for display use so i plugged one into the lappy's external VGA port booted up and Bingo worked perfectly instantly .. Well done to all involved i have never been able to just

Re: [arch-general] Chromium KDE4 optional dependencies

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, gt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:13:09PM +0200, Chris Sakalis wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if this is actually >> worth posting. >> >> I am using KDE4 (4.7.4-1) and Chromium 16, which added support for

Re: [arch-general] Chromium KDE4 optional dependencies

2012-01-10 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
hi, is there an option to force chromium into using the kde dialog by default? I have both chromium16 and kdebase-kdialog installed but it still uses the gtk dialog On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, gt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:13:09PM +0200, Chris Sakalis wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> I

Re: [arch-general] Chromium KDE4 optional dependencies

2012-01-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:13:09PM +0200, Chris Sakalis wrote: > Hello everyone. > I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if this is actually > worth posting. > > I am using KDE4 (4.7.4-1) and Chromium 16, which added support for the native > KDE file dialog. I think that 'kdeba

[arch-general] Chromium KDE4 optional dependencies

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Sakalis
Hello everyone. I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if this is actually worth posting. I am using KDE4 (4.7.4-1) and Chromium 16, which added support for the native KDE file dialog. I think that 'kdebase-kdialog' should be added as an optional dependency, because without it,

Re: [arch-general] New LTS kernel soon ?

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.01.2012 09:04, schrieb Bernardo Barros: > Looks like 3.0 is our new LTS > > 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be > maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. > 2.6.32.y - this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is > approaching it's e

Re: [arch-general] New LTS kernel soon ?

2012-01-10 Thread Bernardo Barros
Looks like 3.0 is our new LTS 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. 2.6.32.y - this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is approaching it's end-of-life, and I think I only have another