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* A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!Farley Flud
+- Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!TomB
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Subject: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
From: Farley Flud
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:05 UTC
From: fflud@gnu.rocks (Farley Flud)
Subject: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
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My power supply was delivered today. The vid card will
be at least 2 weeks until shipment.

But I couldn't fucking wait. I swapped a vid card from
another machine then switched on the power.

It's alive!

After some BIOS tweaking I booted with the Gentoo Live USB.
Right now I'm in that stupid KDE desktop. What junk!

I need to use Gentoo to get the CPU parameters, especially
the cache sizes, so that I can cross compile a complete
system from scratch.

There will be no generic distro on this mighty machine!

--
Gentoo: The Fastest GNU/Linux Hands Down

Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
From: TomB
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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:49 UTC
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Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
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On 2024-12-27, the following emerged from the brain of Farley Flud:
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> I need to use Gentoo to get the CPU parameters, especially
> the cache sizes, so that I can cross compile a complete
> system from scratch.
>
> There will be no generic distro on this mighty machine!

It's been ages since I installed Gentoo. It used to be my go-to distro
for many, many years. I even once installed it on an original RPI.
That was a bit of a pain, I must admit :-)

These days I'm just on Debian. I learned to accept the fact that not
all packages may be configured exactly as I want them.

--
TomB
Is this really happening?

Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
From: TomB
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Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:51:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-27, the following emerged from the brain of Farley Flud:
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> Right now I'm in that stupid KDE desktop. What junk!

Most desktop environments are junk and I like to stick with simple
window managers myself. My favorite's still awesome, which is, well,
awesome.

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TomB
Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so
get used to it.

Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
From: Farley Flud
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:51:46 -0000 (UTC), TomB wrote:

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> Most desktop environments are junk and I like to stick with simple
> window managers myself. My favorite's still awesome, which is, well,
> awesome.
>

You should try FVWM3:

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3

I absolutely could not live without this WM. It is, and
always has been, the greatest.

Unfortunately, the future of FVWM3, as well as other
WMs, will be threatened if the GNU/Linux universe succumbs
to Wayland.

I will NEVER accept Wayland. I will either freeze or move
to FreeBSD.

--
Gentoo: The Fastest GNU/Linux Hands Down

Subject: Re: A New Machine Begins -- It's Alive!
From: Physfitfreak
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On 12/27/2024 11:05 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> My power supply was delivered today. The vid card will
> be at least 2 weeks until shipment.
>
> But I couldn't fucking wait. I swapped a vid card from
> another machine then switched on the power.
>
> It's alive!
>
> After some BIOS tweaking I booted with the Gentoo Live USB.
> Right now I'm in that stupid KDE desktop. What junk!
>
> I need to use Gentoo to get the CPU parameters, especially
> the cache sizes, so that I can cross compile a complete
> system from scratch.
>
> There will be no generic distro on this mighty machine!
>
>

This isn't yet a complete work. When you are _done_ with the machine the
way you want and begin using it for the first time for purposes other
than messing with the machine itself, that's when your Roman Empire
shows itself after about one or two minutes of use :)

Pass that point unharmed, and I can zero in better with what the issue
with my xeon computer is.

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