2012/12/25 Mark Knecht :
>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to
> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files
> are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get
> written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuf
Am 28.12.2012 01:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
I *liked* the "old way" ... is there any explanation why removing this
improves things? How is it supposed to work now?
That's the sane question to ask, unfortunately you won't get a real
answer from the GNOME developers themselves. They are
Am 14.03.2013 09:15, schrieb Dale:
I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to
compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared
to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
Running Gentoo is not a choice about raw _speed_. I mean, even if you
claim that
Am 03.04.2013 01:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
I always used net-misc/ntp for syncing time.
Now I found net-misc/chrony and set it up looks good so far.
Any opinions and experiences on the various ways of getting THE TIME?
Just two different hammers for the same nail. Another altern
Am 01.08.2013 18:28, schrieb Tanstaafl:
I have an older server that I have been putting off this update,
debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev.
I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me
find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from u
Am 01.08.2013 19:16, schrieb Marc Stürmer:
net.ifnames=0
Worked like a charm to me.
Forgot to mention the more thorough documentation though, so here it is:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade
You
Why is was forked you ask? Because of the predictable Name stuff and some
People disliked the attitude of the udev programmer which was "either my
way or the high way." aside choice is always Good to have so in the end IT
was bound to happen sooner or later and is a Good thing to have.
Am 20.08.2013 17:12, schrieb Randy Westlund:
For a multitude of reasons, I'd like to get rid of skype. I've heard several
people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that it's not in the portage
tree.
Well, there's always been something being called a Skype killer over the
last few year
Am 22.08.2013 17:58, schrieb hasufell:
You probably missed those hundreds of bugs we devs and also users were
faced with, including linkage against non-existing sonames, random
crashes and breakage when the binary is stripped.
So this is somewhat wrong information. It's like saying windows work
Am 22.08.2013 18:08, schrieb hasufell:
I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a
lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop, mess with
audio settings and whatnot.
Well, your opinion. In my opinion the ease of use out of the box for the
end user i
Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent
Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck.
That aside, jitsi runs on Java and the Java vm is not really leightweight
either.
the schrieb:
>> My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC.
>I can
. But
that is a Very Different kind of issue Indeed.
Am 23.08.2013 12:50 schrieb "the" :
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> On 08/23/13 14:39, Marc Stürmer wrote:
> > Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue.
> > Most recent C
Am 23.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' I think your keyboard is broken. Your Shift key is
doing odd things and typing CAPS when you obviously didn't intend
More like of my virtual keyboard on my smartphone, anyways... nice to be
back on my real keyboard once more again. Yeah.
Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the:
Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements?
Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium
133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM?
I mean it has always been like that: people buy indeed hardware to match
software re
Am 02.09.2013 10:47, schrieb Joerg Schilling:
Solaris is dynamic from the beginning:
Well in my point of view it boils down to that: someone wants to use ZFS
on Linux. Fine. This means you've got to be a good citizen and obey its
license, of course.
It is for those legal reasons that ZFS i
Am 05.09.2013 05:04, schrieb James:
Do you want to use a software raid of hardware raid?
File system that is best for a Raid 1 workstation?
Well, of course only file systems being supported by the rescue system
of your hosting provider.
File system that is best for a Raid 1
(casual usage)
Am 06.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Paul Hartman:
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, gevisz wrote:
But I have not found MATE in portage...
I see there is a mate overlay available in layman
layman -a mate
GNOME 2.X is been dead since a few years. They went to develop that ugly
beast they call GNOME
Am 17.09.2013 09:20, schrieb Grant:
Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it
considered suitable for a high-performance server?
A high performance server for what?
But you've already given yourself the answer: if high performance is
what you are aiming for it depends
Greetings fellow Gentooistas,
at the moment I am doing some testing and evaluating of Btrfs on my own
system. Why? Just because I can and I am curious about it.
Because I am doing that for evaluation purpose please don't give advise
like "go ZFS" or something like that, thank you.
Kernel is
Zitat von "J. Roeleveld" :
As it is related to this thread, which server would people recommend when the
DNS records are to be found in a database?
I'd recommend PowerDNS, which has also an ebuild in the official
portage tree since ages.
It has several, mature web frontends and deploying D
Zitat von James :
Hello,
Anyone tested/ deployed bcachefs on gentoo yet?
Phorononix already ran some benchmarks on it. As to be expected,
there's of course much work left to do.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bcache-fs-linux&num=1
Am 11.11.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Ralf:
Besides that I would have to live-migrate the Raid10 as I don't have any
spare hdd to cache the data. So I would have to degrade my Raid10.
Is it possible to create a degraded Btrfs?
You can create your shiny, new Btrfs on one device only first and then
ad
Am 26.07.2014 20:23, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
but you will care when your kernel writes the next file right over the
partition boundary.
That's why I do have backups of all my relevant data on an external
storage medium.
Am 17.09.2014 20:36, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
Now you use this to advertise for systemd?
Systemd fanbois are becoming more and more desperate.
Gentoo is still all about choice, right? And we still have that choice.
If you dislike Systemd, then just don't use it. Period.
Contrary to ma
Am 28.09.2014 10:44, schrieb Jorge Almeida:
I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are
unaccountably large.
Really? Who cares. Storage is so cheap nowadays, that that kind of
"bloat" simply doesn't matter on normal deskop computers anymore.
Embedded systems though are
Am 21.11.2014 um 08:17 schrieb Paige Thompson:
I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux
is not linux anymore:
http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/
I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will
Gentoo have any plans of forcing
Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb:
Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo.
Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it)
will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo.
Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast com
Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz:
I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing
window button "x" to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of
Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :)
So, I see no reason that those that hate syste
Am 25.11.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Gevisz:
It usually took me from 10 to 20 minutes to download my daily updates
in Ubuntu. For big packages - about 40 minutes or even more.
That's the time saving aspect
lol :)
Not "lol", it is like I told you. Binary distributions are a big, big
time saver c
Am 26.11.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Walter Dnes:
I've been running ICEWM for over 4 years, and blackbox for a few years
before that. What desktop interface change? :)
Switching to ratpoison or i3wm, of course. :>
Am 27.11.2014 um 16:22 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
And Sabayon uses systemd, of course.
Holy moly... never noticed that this happened.
Am 29.11.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Pandu Poluan:
What do you think, people? Shouldn't we offer them our eudev project to
assist?
Since Eudev has always been opensource under the GPLv2, like udev too,
there's no need to /offer/ it.
If they choose to use it, they can use it, no offer/questions ne
Am , schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
I read "Veteran Unix Admins collective" as a category that old style
admin types fall into - the background being that systemd is
essentially
the old guard, do things based on experience and good practice vs the
new guard whose use case is throw away vm's that are
Am 30.11.2014 um 12:44 schrieb Philip Webb:
A rather shrewd analysis ; the name 'Devuan' adds to my suspicions.
Well, the people behind it claim to be mostly from Italy and this should
be pronounced like "DevOne."
People so far who have published their names do include:
- Franco Lanza (who
Am 30.11.2014 um 17:39 schrieb Daniel Frey:
> systemd most certainly is monolithic as well as modular. You can't run
journald without systemd and you most certainly can't replace journald
with a third party binary.
IMHO this type of discussion leads to nowhere. Of course you can view it
like
Am 01.12.2014 um 09:22 schrieb Pandu Poluan:
Actually, that's my point by saying "offer": Rather than letting them
build eudev from scratch, let's work together on the eudev we have,
promote it to something distro-neutral, then let Gentoo and Devuan
(and whatever other distros) derive from that
Am 03.12.2014 um 11:32 schrieb Michael Vetter:
However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager
to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press
the start button, it just does a normal restart.
Do you want to configure
a) simply hibernation, whi
Am 02.12.2014 um 06:24 schrieb Joseph:
I know there are some command line virus/malware scanners for Linux?
It has been long time ago since I run any of them, that I forgot their
names :-/
There's Maldet, "Linux Malware Detect."
https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/
Am 04.12.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Michael Vetter:
Yes, thats what I want to achive.
The sad thing about hibernation is, that it has always kinda been some
kind of lackluster in the kernel and quite disappointing. It is a kind
of area which does not get much love in the kernel for at least over
Am 06.12.2014 um 00:16 schrieb Mick:
Same opinoin here. The in-kernel driver is only good for reading files and
directories. If anything else is needed use ntfs3g.
This is right, ntfs-3g is a safe way of accessing NTFS from Linux.
Actually, while there is a NTFS-kernel driver, this driver is
Am 01.01.2015 um 18:01 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
I was wondering if there was any harm in disabling the NSA SELinux
support in my gentoo-sources based kernel.
It depends on your usage case (desktop or server) and grade of personal
paranoia.
I know a few administrators how think that enabli
Zitat von Bill Kenworthy :
Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk
volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed?
Content is mostly VM images.
On which kernel version are you?
Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk
volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed?
Content is mostly VM images.
sdc and sdd are 2TB WD greens, and sda is a 2TB WD red.
Question: was /de
Am 17.01.2015 um 00:25 schrieb Paul B. Henson:
http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/
So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least)
that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is
because we're all old and conservative? Not like those y
Zitat von Tom H :
Lennart claims that the embedded world loves systemd. I suspect that,
as in other corners of the Linux world, there are lovers and haters of
systemd.
Embedded systems also quite often means low on resources, CPU power,
memory, space.
If you are using hard space constraine
Am 24.01.2015 um 05:20 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
Is there any way to make it faster or (in other words): Are there
different ways to "Calculating dependencies..." and have only chossen
the slowest one...?
What can I do to spped it up?
Portage is written in Python, normally running on CPyth
Am 22.01.2015 um 19:06 schrieb Tom H:
Sure. My point was that anyone can claim that systemd is (un)popular
in the embedded space.
I don't know if it is popular; in embedded systems though the last thing
you need are fast moving targets IMHO, you want to use proven, reliable
tools.
If syste
Greetings,
I've got a strange behaviour since a couple of weeks.
When working under X11 in a terminal and I type "exit" in the shell, the
terminal does not close itself anymore.
Already changed the shell - no change at all.
Also does Ctrl+Z not work anymore, to bring the process running in t
If you can see -- for example -- ^E when pressing CTRL-E,
then the control codes are received by the shell/terminal,
therefore keyboard related things are not to blame.
Well yes this works.
If so check the shell init files for remapping the keycodes.
Maybe revdep rebuild will show a library, w
Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow:
Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it
as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much
effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I
know it has affected someone else as well.
Zitat von Peter Weilbacher :
Don't have Mate, but I can otherwise confirm this behavior: xfce
terminal works, gnome-terminal does weird things.
One more thing that happens to me is that apparently gnome-terminal
does not notify console apps of new window size. For me this happens
to Alpin
Zitat von Dale :
I have found this one to be the most stable driver.
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116
I am going to give it a shot when I am back home on my own computer.
Greetings fellow Gentooistas,
I am looking for input on how to speed up my boot process with systemd
on Gentoo.
First of one word to systemd: Gentoo is about choice, and I choose to
take a deeper look into systemd out of curiosity, so please respect that
and don't turn it into another kind o
Am 09.03.2014 18:39, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
Something is wrong here; unless you are booting a 386 machine, there
is no way it should take a minute and a half to boot. And even with a
386 I would be suspicious.
No, actually it is an Intel i5-4670K with 8 GB of RAM.
Something is seriousl
Am 09.03.2014 18:56, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
> OK, this is actually normal. Do you realize that it's completely
different from the first one you posted?
Yes, I do though I still wonder what changed, but I do not complain.
Getting less than 12 seconds will be difficult, specially on a
ro
Am 28.03.2014 11:40, schrieb wraeth:
My question is: does anyone know how I can configure either Procmail
to deliver messages in a format Thunderbird will understand; or how I
can configure Thunderbird to be a little bit more maildir compliant?
Well, why don't you just install a local instance
Am 18.05.2014 14:28, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
I'm confused about the desirability of keeping VM image files, usually
space qcow files, on a btrfs volume. I have read the advice about using
chattr +C on the subvolume, but are there any other gotchas? The btrfs
wiki says in one place that using spar
Am 23.05.2014 21:50, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com:
I am open to suggestions here, and I have a log segment I can put
somewhere to illustrage the "oh no" problem, but I am getting tired of
the mess and if I can find something which works with orca I will do
that instead.
Gentoo is all about ha
Am 19.05.2014 13:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of
hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what
is safe with the current release - hence my question.
Oh it does, just take a look at that section:
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Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl:
Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when
playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time
favorite apps, is no more.
Well, considering the fact that Linux comes with its own bunch of
encrytion possibili
Am 03.06.2014 12:00, schrieb Tanstaafl:
So no loss at all if TrueCrypt would really cease to exist.
Which totally misses the point of *how* it happened.
How it happened is strange and you can make many theories about it.
The more interesting question about it for sure is: why did many peopl
Am 03.06.2014 22:14, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
This whole systemd thing looks awfully like the switch from a hosts file
to DNS so many years ago.
Not really. What many people bothers about systemd is that it is getting
more and more
a) a hard dependancy for software projects, e.g. like GNOME, a
Zitat von Hogren :
But, when I boot up again the PC and I «emerge --resume», it restart the
compilation process.
Is there a way to not restart the compilation process ?
Take a look at Tux on Ice, this should do the trick for you.
Am 2016-11-01 14:55, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:
I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
the system. Unfortunately, this give the
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