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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> help him out :D |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Questions--help answer these and you might help Gentoo |
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> and Linux as a whole |
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> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:23:04 -0700 |
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> From: "Charles N. Burns" <charles.burns@×××.net> |
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> To: gentoo-user@g.o |
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> I have a demo for a school tomorrow in which, if I can prove that Gentoo |
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> will work well as a server OS (to use a big server rather than a bunch |
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> of small workstations not running Gentoo) then the school will probably |
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> go with my recommendation, and I have a few questions whose answers will |
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> greatly help the demo's likelyhood of success. This server will be used |
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> by thousands of people per year and, if Gentoo, I will let each one of |
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> them know about it and how to get it. (These are good CS students, the |
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> type of people that Gentoo is best for, IMO) |
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> 1) Mozilla's cursor isn't blinking as I type this. This is irritating |
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> beyond belief and makes it impossible to see where anyone is typing. How |
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> to fix this? (I am in GNOME2, which is what I will use for the demo) |
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> 2) Can Gentoo's kernel safely, stably address 12GB of memory? If not, |
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> will the stock kernel? (Clearly I have to enable high memory and |
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> recompile, but back with 1.1a my system would crash when I enabled |
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> highmem to support the full GB in my Linux server) |
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> 3) Does anyone know how to make HP X-terminals (specifically the Entria |
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> 2) display 16-bit or 24-bit color rather than nasty looking 8-bit? Does |
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> anyone know if it can't be done? Does anyone know these things even |
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> exist? HP doesn't seem to! The things have 2MB of video RAM, so I would |
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> think they can, but the screen gets scrunched into a small corner and |
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> gets mangled when we try. |
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> 4) What CFLAGS should I use for the FASTEST compilation. I figure -O0 is |
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> one (to not optimize). Any others to speed things up? I will be |
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> compiling like 20+ files at once, so every little bit helps. |
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> 5) Biggie---How do I make X start up with a higher priority every time, |
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> rather than manually renicing it each and every time it starts? I use |
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> KDM if that matters. I can use something else, like GDM, if needed. |
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> 6) What other cool stuff can I do for the demo? The server (not mine, |
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> mine is just the demo) will support 35 X-terminals (the Entria II's I |
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> told you about above). I plan to show it running GNOME2, Anjuta, and |
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> EMACS and perhaps a few shells for each user, and then simultaneously |
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> compiling 20 or so programs to show that the system won't freak out or |
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> get dog slow. I'd like to show that Linux is very useful for programmers |
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> learning ANSI C, Java, BASIC (is there a BASIC interpreter for Linux??), |
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> and general use--such as showing they can use Dia for making their |
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> flowcharts. My demo system is a dual AthlonXP 1400MHz W\ 1GB RAM and an |
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> 18GB 10KRPM SCSI drive. The server will be, if the demo works, a dual |
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> Xeon 2.8 W\12GB RAM and 5 10KRPM SCSI drives in RAID10 + hotspare. (Not |
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> bad for 35 X terminals!) |
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> Any ideas on how to show it as useful (if it is for these tasks) and as |
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> generally cool? I was thinking of showing off a few themes, but they |
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> will look like crap in 8-bit color... |
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> 7) Hmm, Mozilla is just broken as hell. What browser should I demo? |
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> Mozilla's cursor doesn't work, cut/paste doesn't work even between |
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> Mozilla applications, and overall it is being a piece of junk. I see the |
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> system install emerged 1.0 for some reason. I'll have to try 1.1. |
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> Any other ideas, warnings, caveats, etc? I am doing the demo TOMORROW |
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> (Friday OCT 4 2002) so need answers ASAP, ***but answers after tommorow |
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> will still be useful*** because I will have a few days to show off to |
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> individual instructors. |
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> Any help appreciated. Thanks. |
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