One little question.. doesn't gentoo have firefox 0.9 yet? Or if it has, how do I install it? Thanks.

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Original post by stefu One little question.. doesn't gentoo have firefox 0.9 yet? Or if it has, how do I install it? Thanks.

It certainly does, but it's still listed as ~x86 (testing/unstable). If you want it, edit /etc/portage/package.keywords (create if it does not exist) and add
=net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.9.1 ~x86
for a specific version or, what I do,
net-www/mozilla-firefox ~x86
to always download the latest version in testing (should my browser die, well, it's not mission critical; I can easily downgrade, and besides, I have Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, Epiphany, Dillo, and Lynx to fall back on should something go really wrong ...).

Once the above is done, emerge mozilla-firefox should do it.

Wow, lots of thanks!

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Original post by clum I don't know what would be wrong with using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but anyway... I know have the 2.6.5 kernel. Things are running much smoother, but I still had one problem (I'll write about that in a second). I'm sitting here with only links (with console graphics!) and irssi, and am currently emerging X. Curiously enough, I ran mirrorselect, and none of the mirrors it found were in Canada! In fact, one of them appeared to be from Germany. I don't know what's up with that. But anyway, the only weird problem that I had was once, while switching virtual consoles away from links, all of the consoles (including the one links was in) got extremely messed up. All the consoles were multicoloured, seemed to have the output of vt1 (the console I was trying to switch to) at the time of the switch in the background, and it was a few lines off (i.e. I had to press enter a few times to see the output of the command I had just typed). I got shocked, but managed to fix that by restarting links with the same graphics mode. After I successfully started links like that, all the other terminals were fixed. Another problem is that links doesn't understand my (PS/2) mouse. It seems to thing that I really want to get to the top left corner of the screen, and it heads in that general direction when I move the mouse.

Disable the framebuffer support on boot, I've had this problem too, never nailed down exactly what causes it. Sometimes the framebuffer works, sometimes not :/ This happens with other distro's too.

You can download CD2, the GRP CD, and it has X and gnome etc.. already built. -O3's not a good idea for most of these apps. The increase in code size consumes more memory and results in lower overall performance than the nanosecond saved by the O3 optimizations. Use -O3 on xmms and mplayer etc... -O2 on business apps & utilities.

Check the mouse config for links, explicitly set it to ps2.