[mdlug] Chaning distros
Fati
fati at venerealinjection.com
Fri Jan 5 10:53:42 EST 2007
On 1/5/07, Morris, Tim <tmorris at ugs.com> wrote:
Gentoo can certainly be used remotely, but there's
> nothing worse than firing off an emerge at work, and not having it
> finish before you leave to go home. I found myself having to Remote
> Desktop to my office PC, through VPN and Windows to check the status of
> the compile.
Going a bit off topic, but if you run into this problem often you
should check out the screen package. It allows you to fire off
console programs and then detach from them and come back later. It
has many other nice features as documented by the 3 mile long man page
:)
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