From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7GcJ-0002hs-3t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:52:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDAB2E0B6C; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B94FE0B6C for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1368360fga.10 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:52:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=y22GnMuqQ5wwF7YUAfVh0FoKrU9IT7/IaBY+g0Vxm7I=; b=fC5VDMlBL0tnb6ZFTbiwhGrYDBO4WbeQSba828D+vy0vL52Dn1RVyptmFuzmoiWiov fThvjW0KrKuKshXgcwTG3EppRsS8U/iA20+H4Pejf6DDiP9OLUofFSWB8p3jkZOLTzHu XSJnVMBhrq+N8To+LAq51nxfLgCl1zPxgg2BY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=qAOEGQAwmaJ4xGIhpBa37VjxX5ACHrBqHxTky/yCmXnKD5IW67LyrgWCyT4lcxBx2Y WYqP/cUNUT7mqtW03gObQ4ROEKN+hb3oiW51Ces9rv/rYmbZlRq2dQ7G6s70T1YoCNLf 1nmJnUQl0IFf2pb0upVrJYkiQ953XCEFVXLy0= Received: by 10.86.103.26 with SMTP id a26mr7702041fgc.40.1257720732925; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm4275845fga.5.2009.11.08.14.52.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:52:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it? Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:51:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen6; KDE/4.3.73; x86_64; ; ) References: <39CFC182-B039-4D26-9880-DC26485DF8F2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4AF7443D.7070708@gmail.com> <6D611A39-D2CB-4084-8EFE-B2EF74D9F445@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6D611A39-D2CB-4084-8EFE-B2EF74D9F445@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911090051.14209.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 197c41e3-938a-4964-998d-2683c98f8658 X-Archives-Hash: 6037ee50142ed74536e1317fd3396fee On Monday 09 November 2009 00:41:08 Stroller wrote: > Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I > could be spending reading a good book, instead [1]. > Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread. And yet you use gentoo.... Considering what gentoo is and how one interfaces with it, should you not rather be using a binary distro where someone else does the heavy lifting? Something like Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com