Ok Guys.. Here's a little rant about something tha...

Ok Guys.. Here's a little rant about something thats been bothering me for quite some time...

Everyone seems to be saying that gentoo is for power users, and maybe a distro like mandrake or RH Would be better suited for a newbie. I couldn't possiblydisagree more. I too have been around the distro block, I've installed Debian several times. Slackware 8, A couple versions of Mandrake, and Redhat. I've also ran OpenBSD and FreeBSD. when I first started I was about as Newbie as they get... and I only wish that gentoo was around at the time I first started... Sure, the installation is maybe a bit discouraging for a newbie, but its almost impossible to screw it up, after all you have step-by-step instructions telling you word for word waht you need to type.. a monkey could do it! once you follow all of the (EXCELLENT) documentation through the install guide and the desktop guide Gentoo immediately becomes the absolute easiest Distro I've ever seen to manage. I've *NEVER* had a problem with dependencies (Which were all too common under every other distro, including debian) everything I ever wanted to install was as easy as "emerge packagename" I'd be interested to hear why people think Gentoo should be aimed at power users?! if I want to convince someone to run linux the first thing i would do is tell them to install gentoo... if they were REALLY Newbie i'd install it for them and just say "when you want to install something just type emerge pkgame" and I'd point them at google to find out what software is out there. before gentoo i never would have recommended linux to anyone except a few of my geekier friends but now i'm convinced my parents could run it if someone installed it for them.

Bottom Line: Gentoo is the easist distro to use on a regular basis than anything I've ever seen. it is IMHO MUCH Better suited for Newbies than something like Redhat, which will immediately frustrate any new user with RPM Hell!

Opinions?

Ich habe das Ph?nomen, dass sowohl openoffice.org ...

Ich habe das Ph?nomen, dass sowohl openoffice.org als auch koffice sporadisch, nicht reproduzierbar abst?rzen und dann das ganze system mit runter ziehen. Das ganze system mit runter ziehen hei?t: ich kann die maus noch bewegen (das geht immer, jedenfalls be mir noch nie nicht), aber entweder nur auf dem Monitor, auf dem das Programm ist oder nur auf dem anderen. Zu beginn scheint er noch auf klicks zu reagieren, aber dazu X zu killen oder in die Kosole zu wechseln komm ich nicht. Sporadisch hei?t, dass es mal 2h geht, dann in 5min 3xNeustart(?ber reset-knopf) notwendig ist.
Kommandozeilenausgabe konnte ich auch noch nicht einsehen, da das Programm die konsole ?berdeckt und sich auch nicht verchieben l?sst, wenn es abgest?rzt ist.
Au?erdem habe ich die beobachtung gemacht, dass mir dies bisher nur a.d. 2. Monitor passiert ist.
HW/SW:
uname -a:Linux pc_tom_gentoo 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 #1 Mon May 30 19:27:55 CEST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
koffice-version: 1.3.5-r2
openoffice-version: 1.1.3 (32Bit binary)
1024MB ram (noname)
Graka1:Geforce 5900ZT
Graka2:Geforce 2 MX 400
Nochwas?
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sooo, i am willing to spend 400? on a portable mp3...

sooo, i am willing to spend 400? on a portable mp3 player.

i am temped by either a neuros or an ipod... i simply don't know which one to get, so which would you chose?

pros for the neuros:
i like the neuros for its ability to broadcast to any radio that might be around, making a cassette adapter in my car obsolete. i also love their linux and ogg support.

cons for the neuros:
compared to the ipod it looks cheap and ugly. but i do not mind that so much. there is no official support for europe yet (don't know how well broadcasting will work, and i will need a power adapter...) - this is frightening me a little, since i don't want to spend 400? just to notice that it will not work...
and i would have to import it from the US (i live in germany) but i don't mind doing that...


pros for ipod:
it looks beautiful. it has been around for some time and is known for real good sound quality. there are attempts to make linux work on it and create a replacement firmeware which would playback ogg vorbis as well... ipodlinux.sf.net

cons for ipod:
no linux support, no vorbis support. i don't know whether i like having to do all the tinkering till i can get firewire to work on linux. (but i am sure i could manage to do that.)


soooo. i hva e no idea at all as to which one to buy. please help me

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O3...

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O3 -ftree-vectorize -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -falign-functions=64 -fPIC -DPIC"

USE="gcc4 static qt-static qt4 symlink dlloader kde qt gnome -bindist mono \
kdehiddenvisibility glitz cairo dri firefox xml -postgress mysql mpm-* -apache2 \
-snmp -arm -alpha bitmap-fonts kdepim xcomposite quicktime v4l vcd vorbis encode \
pdflib python plotutils png pnp -pcmcia lcms imagemagick javascript ipeg junit freetype \
-mozilla firefox hal -tcpd reiser4 -apm objc threads nvidia truetype -vorbis win32codecs divx4linux \
-cups slang ncurses usb xinerama nomalloccheck kdeenablefinal -sasl -font-server -debug cjk oss opengl wmf \
aiglx compositor opengl pda -hardened -mysql qt gtk2 gtk html dga dio fpu vme \
pse36 fxsr sse syscall mp 3dnowext 3dnow nptl nptlonly ffmpeg \
unicode utf8 -ipv6 nls -pcmcia -pic java -ssl \
truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales -smb -samba -ldap xglserver \
glx mesa -pam -moznoxft xft type1 -gdbm berkdb -pango"

FEATURES="-strict buildpkg prelink ccache"

===================================================
khtml_part.cpp:1514: warning: unused parameter 'kio_job'
khtml_part.cpp:1565: warning: unused parameter 'kio_job'
khtml_caret.cpp: In member function 'void khtml::CaretBoxLine::addConvertedInlineBox(khtml::InlineBox*, khtml::CaretBoxLine::SeekBoxParams&)':
khtml_caret.cpp:669: warning: 'lastCoalescedBox$index' may be used uninitialized in this function
khtml_caret.cpp:669: warning: 'lastCoalescedBox$cbl' may be used uninitialized in this function
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O3 -ftree-vectorize -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -falign-functions=64 -fPIC -DPIC -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -o libkhtml.la -rpath /usr/kde/3.5/lib -version-info 6:0:2 -no-undefined -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -Wl,--version-script=./libkhtml.map -L/usr/kde/3.5/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/lib libkhtml_la.all_cc.lo libkhtml_la.all_cpp.lo ./xml/libkhtmlxml.la ./html/libkhtmlhtml.la ./rendering/libkhtmlrender.la ./css/libkhtmlcss.la ./misc/libkhtmlmisc.la ecma/libkjs_html.la ./dom/libkhtmldom.la ../kparts/libkparts.la ../kdeprint/libkdeprint.la ../kutils/libkutils.la ../kwallet/client/libkwalletclient.la
ecma/.libs/libkjs_html.a(libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.o): In function `KJS::DOMObject::get(KJS::ExecState*, KJS::Identifier const&) const':
libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x3c92d): undefined reference to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr'
ecma/.libs/libkjs_html.a(libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.o): In function `KJS::DOMFunction::call(KJS::ExecState*, KJS::Object&, KJS::List const&)':
libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x65dcc): undefined reference to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr'
libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x66151): undefined reference to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr'
libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x6641f): undefined reference to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr'
libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x6667d): undefined reference to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr'
ecma/.libs/libkjs_html.a(libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.o):libkjs_html_la.all_cpp.cpp:(.text+0x66a28): more undefined references to `__cxa_get_exception_ptr' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libkhtml.la] ?????? 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/khtml'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] ?????? 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2/khtml'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] ?????? 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6/work/kdelibs-3.5.2'
make: *** [all] ?????? 2

!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1531: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 931: Called src_compile
kdelibs-3.5.2-r6.ebuild, line 127: Called kde_src_compile
kde.eclass, line 123: Called kde_src_compile 'all'
kde.eclass, line 252: Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make'
kde.eclass, line 248: Called die

!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Hey, to help educate my little brother about linux...

Hey, to help educate my little brother about linux I installed ubuntu-6.06 on a spare partition as I didn't want him messing with my gentoo installation and wanted him to install a distribution for himself. The installation went fine (atleast the files were placed on the partition) however for whatever reason ubuntu didn't install a boot manager which I thought would be no problem.

I added Ubuntu to lilo.conf, ran lilo which reported no problems, then rebooted and ubuntu failed to boot (gentoo still boots fine). It appears the initrd boots giving me a shell but complains about the target filesystem not having /sbin/initctl and not being able to mount /proc /dev etc... so my question is how do I configure lilo from gentoo to boot both distros?

The contents of my lilo.conf:

j'aimerai savoir si il est possible de choisir la ...

j'aimerai savoir si il est possible de choisir la r?solution de grub lui m?me (pas en mode console mais le menu grub qui fait choisir linux ou windows) avec les couleurs (les bits) car la j'ai un splash screen pas mal avec des pingouins mais les couleurs et la r?solution
alors est ce possible ??
PS: j'ai chercher sur le
le splash screen ci vous le voulez :
http://download.biosdriver.net/?id=14081&comp=Gateway&model=D00805-001-001.exe%205.10.0.5345
merci
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Hi,

I want to use my Mustek 1200 CP...

Hi,

I want to use my Mustek 1200 CP parallel port scanner under 64-Bit Linux. The problem is that there is no mustek_pp.conf backend in the "sane-backends" package. Under 32-Bit Gentoo the mustek_pp.conf is available and works. How can I use this scanner under 64-Bit Gentoo?


MorLipf

Installed Gentoo through the guides. At the begin...

Installed Gentoo through the guides. At the begining of startup I recieve this error.

Beware I am a total Linux NEWB

fsck.ext2 Nof SUch file or Directory while trying to open /dev/boot
/dev/boot:
The superblock could not be read or does nto describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem, then the superblock is corrupt.

I am using openoffice-ximian 1.3.4, and have not b...

I am using openoffice-ximian 1.3.4, and have not been able to insert OLE objects. When I attempt to make one from a graphics file (jpeg, bmp), it spits out that it couldn't be converted. Is there a fix for this?
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why dont they put linux games in stores? e.g. UT20...

why dont they put linux games in stores? e.g. UT2003 or Quake III???

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