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On March 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:27:05AM -0400, Daddy wrote |
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> > Having personally long considered Lennart Poettering a 'spawn of |
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> > the devil' my question is ... is this your reaction to systemd? |
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> It's my reaction to the "Windows-isation" and "Firefox-isation" of |
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> linux. So far I've managed to keep systemd and hal and dbus and |
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> pulseaudio off my machines. I agree with Linus Torvalds that linux is |
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> getting bloated and huge and scary... |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/linus_torvalds_linux_bloated_huge/ |
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We share the same opinions there. To me the Linux distros have shot their |
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desktops in the foot; instead of getting _better_ than the competition, IMO |
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they've actually gotten worse in the last 5 years. |
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Will joyfully read that from Linus after my nap. (Probably did long ago and |
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forgot it.) |
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> > One minor typo to point out: |
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> > /atc/portage/package.mask should be /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> Thanks; fixed now. |
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Even when I can't offer code changes, typos are easy (having grown up in |
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the newspaper and printing business). |
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> > I just joined this list last week, but might consider sacrificing |
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> > some hardware to join your endeavor if you need more testers. |
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> I have a couple of regular desktops here at home, and a desktop |
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> dedicted to my TV, plus a netbook, and a laptop. So far, I've run into |
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> only one situation where laziness on my part ends up requiring udev. |
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> The laptop has an ATI Radeon chip that requires emerging radeon-ucode. |
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> That ebuild simply dumps a bunch of binary blobs into a library folder. |
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> The kernel loads one of the binary blobs at bootup. Radeon-ucode has |
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> blobs for 2 or 3 dozen differnt Radeon GPU models. If I leave all the |
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> binary blobs in the library folder, the kernel needs udev to figure out |
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> which blob to load. But, if I leave only the correct blob for my GPU in |
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> the library folder (move/delete all the others), it loads properly |
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> without any help from udev. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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iamben in #gentoo on IRC has piqued my interest to build a HTPC. Friday I |
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put a 60G SSD and a 1TB mechanical drive on a board, partitioned the SDD, |
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and d/led stage3 and portage before stopping. That and the earlier |
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mentioned test machine will be my builds for tomorrow. Actually the HTPC is |
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a strange idea, since we don't watch or even own a TV, but it might be a |
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way to sell some of this hardware on my shelf. |
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Kindest regards, |
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Bruce Hill |
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sig to come after punching a hole in the LAN and starting mutt on the |
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