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