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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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> 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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> 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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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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