Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-20 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/19/25 7:12 PM, Matt Jolly wrote: A re-used SFF PC and cheap network card may be more cost effective than buying a new router! Note: do not make the mistake I once did and try using an external NIC. Even with fast enough USB speeds, it was never performant enough for a router :).

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Jay Faulkner
3/4 as the FS? Use lsblk to check. If yes, another thing to try might be remounting the fs as read only during the action: `mount -oremount,rw /var` Good luck, Jay On 5/11/2025 7:39 AM, Dale wrote: open: Device or resource busy while opening /dev/OS/var

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: List of installed packages that don't like 3.13 Python?

2025-05-05 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/5/25 9:41 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm afraid I don't know what "::gentoo" refers to. This is the usual way to refer to overlays/repositories in portage. For example... ::gentoo is the official gentoo ebuild repository ::guru is the GURU project ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/2/25 3:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: None of this has anything to do with Gentoo, really, it's just a tangent. :) Yeah, fair enough for sure! I read that "a project" in the original email as a backhanded reference to Gentoo itself. I'm friends with a handful of folks who have been (unfair

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/2/25 2:15 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: If that's the way they see things, it would seem that having a project dependent on rust should figure high on that project's risk list. This is ... a non-actionable take, regardless of if I agree with it or not. Do you expect Gentoo to replace Firefo

Re: [gentoo-user] Package "www-client/firefox"

2024-12-04 Thread Jay Faulkner
I run the rapid slot of Firefox. -- Jay Faulkner On 12/4/24 6:35 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, Gentoo provides two flavours of Firefox, one in slot "esr" (Extended Support Release) and one in slot "rapid" (new release every 16 weeks). In an attempt to int

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-25 Thread jay
less ubiquitus routers), fed a lot of the paranoia around desires to disable IPv6. It still can happen today, but IME it's more often in the form of an ISP with inferior IPv6 connectivity. -- Jay Faulkner As Arsen mentioned, RFC 8305 defines the "Happy Eyeballs" mechanism for trying