I had some system problems yesterday. My VMware guests just stopped. Middle of the day and they just died. I tried to run the management console or even the command line programs, but they all failed with the infamous "VMware is installed but is not configured for this system..." message and the prompt to run vmware-config.pl. I re-emerged vmware-server … Continue reading Gentoo “hardened” multilib?
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My desktop Ubuntu system is/was a 32-bit build running on 64-bit hardware. I'd been looking on-and-off for a way to in-place upgrade an Ubuntu system from i386 to x86_64, but it doesn't look easy/feasible/worthwhile compared to a fresh install. So thinking that I was up for a reinstall anyway, I decided to check out whether Ubuntu was … Continue reading Sabayon Linux
I like Gentoo Linux, but sometimes I find it's not really applicable for some of what I'm using it for. Like my main server. This machine is one of the two machines at my place that just HAVE to work (the firewall/phone server is the other), and there's been a few instances recently where Gentoo has let … Continue reading Gentoo Linux wastes a bit more of my life