The LVM Package does not offer a great GUI for managing volumes. In fact, everything is to be done on CLI. RedHat did a nice GUI for Gnome. First of all, I searched a test install for the files to do me a tarball as I have seen a strange update filed as system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC5.noarch.rpm – that’s a clue. […]
Tag: gentoo
It’s getting cold…
The weather is getting cold and wet. It is time to get a gcc update that the server produces enough heat for drying clothes and heating the flat…
Oxygen Icons
KDE 4 is already insight and should be arriving around October. I am watching the news about this desktop system since a while and liked the fresh look of the new iconset. As Icons do not need to be compiled nor linked I thought it would be easy integrating them into my current Desktop. Doing so is really […]
My two cents on KDE 3.5.7
As gentoo user I am likely to hacking some ebuilds and raping my system – think my readers should know me as that kind of person already. But back to the topic: I have unmasked the new KDE 3.5.7 to have a closer look. Ok… There are still some ebuilds missing out there, but it was an easy […]
My two cents on XFS
The XFS Filesystem was developed by Silicon Graphics some time ago. 1994, to be correct. I loved it because of its speed and reliability. Its B+Tree structures made it extremly fast with directories and the maximum filesize is amazing as we are talking about Exbibytes, which is more than 9 million Terrabyte!! As a bonus it is even […]
Gentoo/FreeBSD
As many people are talking about FreeBSD lately, I have decided to take a closer look. So I cleaned up my notebook to get 30 GB of free space to have a nice playground for having a look at Gentoo – Gentoo on FreeBSD The first impressions after leaving the LiveCD behind was quite satisfying. The system feels […]