Hi,
Does anyone have a recommendation of a good photo printer under Linux?
I've heard good things about Epson printers, specifically the 2200
series.
I need a printer with USB connection, and good quality output (under
Linux, gimp-print?) of pictures/photos.
Thanks,
John
No, the install isn't the easiest thing to someone not familar with it,
but the Gentoo documentation is quite good. The basic install (known as a
stage 1 install) alone can take a fair amount of time since everything has
to be compiled. However, you can save time by using what's called a stage
2 install where some of the basic install is precompiled. A stage 3
install is where the entire basic install is already compiled.
We would not be able to complete a stage 1 or stage 2 install during a
typical WLUG meeting and it is the kind of thing to let run overnight. If
you are a laptop user you can download all the neccessary source files in
advance and leave the meeting with the laptop still compiling. Otherwise,
a constant, and preferably fast, network connection is required.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have heard way to much about Gentoo to not try it
> out, but have also heard the install is not so easy.
>
> Someone has mentioned it before, but how about an
> install fest so others can get hands on with different
> distro installs?
>
> just one man's opinion....
>I have heard way to much about Gentoo to not try it out, but have also
heard the install is not so easy.
Well, the install is not easy relative to, say, SuSE or Redhat. Its not
all automatic and requires you to actually do some work on the command
line (setting up the mirrors for portage, optionally configuring the
make.conf file to optimize compilation, partioning via good 'ol fdisk,
mkfs-ing filesystems, chroot'ing and such) but a printable Quick Install
Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml) really
takes out the difficulty. I, at least, had no problem setting it up, a
couple of times.
The only real issue with Gentoo is that if you do go for the
compile-everything-mode it takes a good full day to get up and running,
and compiling in X and KDE or GNOME is best left for a second day of work
(or just let it run overnight). You *can* use prebuilt binary packages,
but then why bother using Gentoo?
Additionally, all the preinstall stuff can be done with the Gentoo Live CD
or something like Knoppix (which I would have used, but needed 2.6 kernel
support, and at the time couldn't get Knoppix to boot a 2.6 kernel,
whereas the Gentoo Live CD did have it).
> Someone has mentioned it before, but how about an install fest so others
can get hands on with different distro installs?
An installfest would be a great idea. Could hand out live CD's to
linux-hopefuls and install in people's computers. I'd be up for trying to
get some people running Gentoo and other distros.
--
Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu
"To iterate is human, to recurse, divine."
-- L. Peter Deutch
Folks,
I need some help here. I am a Linux / Unix newbie and I am
wondering how I can painlessly (although I realize that i
must put in a lot of hard work) get a carrer in the Unix /
Linux world.
I am a CCNA, MCSE, CCSA, N+ and A+ and I am comfortable in
the networking field. I am comfortable with the Cisco IOS,
Checkpoint as well as the microsoft shit. But after realizing
that Microsoft is not my very friendly area, I am leaning
towards going into the Linux / Unix world.
Where should I start? I dont want to spend time going to
school and I am confortable with self study. What
certifications would you recommend and what books do I need?
Thanks,
John
Well, you probably couldn't do a Stage 1 install. Seems like you'd
have to do like a Stage 3 and use --pkgonly for things like
KDE/Gnome/Xorg. That's probably obvious, but thought I'd point it out.
And by using --pkgonly, you lose any speed benefits that you could
have gained by compiling . . . so it's kind of a catch-22.
I guess it depends on the CPU and RAM of the machine, but a Stage 1
install (w/ XF86/KDE) took 4-5 days on my machine.
Philip
Solo mis dos centavos . . .
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> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Wlug] another vote for a future meeting topic
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
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>
> I have heard way to much about Gentoo to not try it
> out, but have also heard the install is not so easy.
>
> Someone has mentioned it before, but how about an
> install fest so others can get hands on with different
> distro installs?
>
> just one man's opinion....
>
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I'm getting an error message e-mailed to me by cron.. Any idea how to
fix this?
/var/cron.log looks OK.
30-Aug-04 15:00 USER root pid 24063 cmd root rm -f
/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
30-Aug-04 15:00 USER root pid 24064 cmd root test -x
/usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cron root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: root(a)smoke.zoop.org (Cron Daemon)
To: root(a)smoke.zoop.org
/bin/bash: line 1: root: command not found
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linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/acenic.c
I have heard way to much about Gentoo to not try it
out, but have also heard the install is not so easy.
Someone has mentioned it before, but how about an
install fest so others can get hands on with different
distro installs?
just one man's opinion....
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Hello All,
Can anyone point me to a good primer on the top of UNIX file descriptors?
We had an issue with them recently at work on a SunOS 5.8 host and we
upped the limit from 1024 to 4096 via the /etc/system file. There was
some debate as to whether or not it was a good idea. My Google searches
implied it *might* not be a good idea in some circumstances but I found
no obvious conclusions.
I know what they are - I just want to understand the pros and cons of
changing the default limit...and why there are limits in the first place.
Thank you for any help!
-- Gary
