-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:03:54 -0600 > Robert Peters <robertpeters9@...> wrote: > >> On 1 November 2014 14:00, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote: >> > Am Samstag, 1. November 2014 schrieb Robert Peters: >> >> FreeBSD sounds like a possibility (and no systemd). Thinking of >> >> installing to see about running TDE in it. But its boot image >> >> requires a MBR primary or GUID partition. So I would have to back up >> >> my disk in order to convert to GUID partitioning...one thing leads to >> >> another...will consider it...Robert >> > >> > I'm already evaluating FreeBSD for my desktop. As far as I've come >> it's working at least as good as wheezy on older laptops (T60 / T61 / >> X60 - I don't have newer). At the moment I have XFCE and FVWM running, >> but it's definitly missing a good file manager like konqueror. >> > >> > I'm verry happy that Fran�ois and Sl�vek put effort in getting TDE >> working on OpenBSD, so chances are I'll escape systemd :-) >> > >> > Nik >> >> >> Another way to go is Gentoo, though it takes some work and close >> attention to the installation manual. I used it for a while ten years >> ago and am looking at it again. I wonder what experience others have >> had with it. > > I've been using Gentoo for . . . nine years now? Something like that. > It's a functional distribution if you're comfortable with the command line > and willing to ignore the periodic flare-ups of developer drama backstage. > > Openrc is a solid enough init system (not as fast as I understand systemd > can be set up to be, but as far as I'm concerned that's a feature), and > Gentoo isn't likely to give it up any time soon. I've also opted for > eudev > rather than standard udev on two boxes, and haven't had any problems > with that either. > > Unfortunately, the most complete set of Trinity packages for Gentoo > ( https://github.com/Fat-Zer/trinity ) is somewhat out of date. Tweaking > the ebuild version numbers may be enough to let most packages build, > though. > > In general, the continued existence of the (increasingly broken) > kde-sunset > overlay complicates Trinity's status with respect to Gentoo. > > E. Liddell Is there anything we can do to fix the kde-sunset problem, for example by providing a non-broken overlay for TDE? I don't know enough about Gentoo to comment intelligently here, but if kde-sunset still exists then there must be some demand for TDE bottled up over there? Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlRVlz8ACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHM9wDdFz/gXiebhS2d/PipY8DVE68D O5WROxWhSXR9SgDgpIrvGvJd0stn2dyFIFW5rI+mkRuO4rRdApjnLQ== =dmiq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----