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 1N7HOs-00016I-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:42:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0EE9E0D8F; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:41:51 +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 A5D3BE0D8F for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1379827fga.10 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:51 -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=Y/MCog7TyU/+X8oQ22zSyAwrDuSZeu4vYx/NnPF4MF4=; b=arlxReqBBuTnNykEwvxy7oc83DKeMgW3NYwN9YWK+44fNCheX5sYfXLfxLWIZ9IlPR L369g/kiRy2KGQZ4b8rasj5q8co6nwiv7WumwLgq9XxRnrgHokJ11ScBUwx7PXP/i6sa qGlOJWvg65KNpAMxu4YngLMj9gjJINcf//l+k= 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=Ongtvi2VkmJR6XROUrTp1pg8tQqNQwQ3PRb6ITQOKGQQ+CbuMtpHfpMTZwZFP82a/M v1V2O4LyLsLzM+nmAhKCELuvBzHUy5qb84cmmeZOj2S9PfdnDY8eJmvC6w3vjYwtafXD v9CWp70heytfgCXqISrGvc1ZzLVib82kvbbSo= Received: by 10.87.38.33 with SMTP id q33mr7797331fgj.3.1257723711112; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:51 -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 l12sm5678132fgb.12.2009.11.08.15.41.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:50 -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 01:40:45 +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> <200911090051.14209.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <283ACC7D-9237-404B-8E97-FB78E0D9D5B5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <283ACC7D-9237-404B-8E97-FB78E0D9D5B5@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: <200911090140.45687.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0ac89ce4-bb6c-4dbf-9382-5f592786bc54 X-Archives-Hash: d4c575b85da830c9beb844345f99d918 On Monday 09 November 2009 01:21:24 Stroller wrote: > > 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? > > Not at all. > > Are you taking this discussion combatively? > Not at all. I just find it odd that you use gentoo by choice, get to grips with defining *exactly* what you need and want, take steps to do just that, do it, and then don't do it with the kernel. In fact, you do the opposite. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com