Gentoo! (Gesundheit!)

[elfs]

Well, there are a lot of spare corners in Gentoo with which I have to contend, but at the moment a lot of the system is running quite nicely. I have movies and music, both quite stable-- in fact, both keep running after a suspend and restart, which the 2.4 Redhat kernel could not do. The battery life seems comparable, although I won't really know that until later next week when I have bus trips. The 2.6.7 kernel does seem to do some things better, such as allowing me to keep running even when the harddrive is locked up-- which frequently happens on massive writes. XFCE is a stable windowing environment and Galeon 1.3 on top of Mozilla 1.6 is very, very nice. I have my editor of choice, and neither XMMS or MPG321 lectured me about copyrights and patents when I installed the MP3 code.

So far, about my only concern has been for the video decoder on mplayer; it seems unnaturally slow compared to the one that I had when running RedHat. As far as I can tell, it's the same one that's running on P'nyssa, which is a RedHat system. Running through the various modes, it seems to be a problem with the audio/video decoder; the display engine works great when using different codecs.

There are the odd corners: after a reboot, I have to manually reload pcmcia, sound, laptop, font and secure shell services. PCMCIA isn't configuring my networks right when I slap in a localized card, and network identity is a hazy thing for lain right at the moment. Not so bad I can't LJ, though. I've got Usenet, LiveJournal, the web (and too many freaking browsers), some email, most audio/video (I even have APE now! Whoo-freakin'-hoo), suspend, battery, wireless (but still set up manually), bittorrent and the binary harvester... all the geeky goodness.

Now, the only question is, can I get pygtk2 up and running? When I last lost lain, I lost a lot of the work on Plotlines. I figure it would behoove me to prototype it with pygtk2 first, get something up and running, and do the rest afterwards. (Yeah, I know, python is a perfectly good language in its own right. But I write these toy programs in C because I don't get to do C in my daily life anymore.)

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And as a side-note...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...just in case it wasn't obvious from the above, or from rooting around yourself:

ls /etc/init.d

Each of those files can be used in place of 'ssh' in the above command, and can take 'start', 'stop' or 'restart' at a minimum.

Re: And as a side-note...

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they can also take commands like "zap", too, when it gets confused and thinks a service is running when it actually isn't. At least, if they use the Gentoo dependancy stuff, which all the ones in Gentoo ebuilds do, at least.

Re: And as a side-note...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Ergo the "...at a minimum" part, as I wasn't sure off the top of my head what other required commands were needed, and any others would likely need some explanation. Start, Stop, and Restart are pretty self-explanitory. :-)