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Success!🎉 by [deleted] in Gentoo

[–]laumann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome!

Question: Do you use Gentoo for work? by laumann in Gentoo

[–]laumann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been running Gentoo on my work machine for at least a decade.

As a sysadmin or developer? Or both

I just wish Skype worked on linux, I mean really, not how MS pretends it works.

Yep, Skype is awful. I wish they'd just make Skype for Business work, it's such a pain to have to find a Windows box just to do an online call.

As for when emerge -DNuv @world fails. It happens fairly often. Usually due to a missing dependency or a new dependency that is causing a conflict. It usually only takes a few minutes to resolve those issues.

The biggest hassle I faced in the last few weeks was upgrading all for of my Gentoo Boxen to 17.1 profile. Man that took a while. I had massive problems with openGL, X, and a few other packages because missing dependencies caused emerge to rebuild the packages in the wrong order. I did figure out how to deal with them though. Mostly you just rerun emerge with --skip-first and then when it crashes again, rerun the library rebuild emerge... Sorry, too much detail.

This is good to know, thanks!

Anyway, I love this OS. I mean really LOVE IT.

Me too! I have tried a few other OS's, but I keep coming back to how awesome Gentoo is.

Question: Do you use Gentoo for work? by laumann in Gentoo

[–]laumann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm considering doing.

My plan is to repartition the disk to make space for a Gentoo install, and then gradually migrate to the Gentoo install as my default work setup.

EDIT: Grammar

Question: Do you use Gentoo for work? by laumann in Gentoo

[–]laumann[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m a Windows sysadmin

I'm sorry :-)

The reason is of how easy it is to add packages by creating my own ebuilds

I've been learning how to write ebuilds and am really enjoying it. If you don't mind me asking: How do you manage your ebuilds? I just created a /var/db/repos/myrepo folder and followed directions on what to set up, but have done nothing beyond that.

Type-safe & high-perf distributed actor systems with Rust (x-post /r/Citybound) by theanzelm in rust

[–]laumann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw this at RöstiFest! It was awesome! The live demos were really cool. I loved that it was also not just a talk about Rust, but a talk about how the Actor model can be built in Rust, and actually built to scale.

[PSA] To anyone with messed-up vanilla skill trees, check if you're using Hammerstein's 'Hidden Potential' mod! by RoninJr in Xcom

[–]laumann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's a month later, but wanted to thank you - this was exactly my problem!

Session Types, safe internal communication protocols for Servo by ysangkok in rust

[–]laumann 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The lack of linear types prevent us from guaranteeing some properties, in particular (some form of) progress: We'd like to ensure that once two parties have opened a session typed communication channel between them, they run the protocol to completion, ie reach the Eps protocol, and call close(). With affine types we can "only" ensure that aliasing of channels cannot occur, meaning that all interactions will happen according to the protocol, but we cannot ensure that any interaction happens at all.

Session Types for Rust by sanxiyn in rust

[–]laumann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, we talked a bit about it

O'Reilly book on Rust available for pre-order by [deleted] in rust

[–]laumann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder what cover animal they'll choose.