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Jul. 11th, 2003 09:26 amI need to figure out something clever to do...
I spent most of yesterday fiddling with my brand new Gentoo install on elrond, who is now the coolest desktop machine on the face of the entire planet :) It's so amazingly satisfying, installing a new Gentoo (stage 1, even!) on a fast machine. Now all of my programs are brand-new and all optimized-with-O3-just-for-me, and all of those things I'd held off on upgrading (because it would've been a pain, and I figured I could just get along without them) when I was running Slack got upgraded for me, and everything Just Works. And now my X is the prettiest X anywhere, and I'm all "brand new blackbox with cool themes" and "gtk2" and "bright orange, green, and black". And whenever I want, I can just go "emerge sync; emerge -u world" and the /whole freaking system/ will get brought up to date :)
Ahhh... Gentoo :) Where would the world be without Gentoo?
(I feel a little bit guilty about not running Slackware, after all these years of happy Slacking. As such, I will give Patrick Volkerding two links.)
... I've just been in a mood to install some OSs. eowyn (currently running gentoo, also very happily) might be getting some BSD variant in the near future, maybe, and I'm thinking treebeard is on his way to losing the redhat (which I haven't touched in weeks -- it was for the Linux kernel class, just to be standard with the stuff in the labs) and getting something bizarre like FreeDOS, or maybe something bizarre-er, which I've been meaning to set up for years, if I can swing figuring out the video compatability issues which've traditionally thwarted my plan9 efforts.
That, and I've just been sort of looking around, trying to figure out what I should learn next... I've got a hankering to get my C++ or Perl or SDL or gtk or Lisp or /something/ up to snuff... it feels like it's time to get proficient with a new language or toolkit or something, and I just need to pick one and sit down and focus on it...
So essentially, I'm home for some number of weeks, and my brain is spinning around, looking for something interesting to do, and attempts to find physical Tallahassee people to hang out with haven't been as fruitful as they could be, but I really need to get out of the house. Perhaps there'll be somebody interesting out in the woods, and perhaps I'll find them if I go and run.
I spent most of yesterday fiddling with my brand new Gentoo install on elrond, who is now the coolest desktop machine on the face of the entire planet :) It's so amazingly satisfying, installing a new Gentoo (stage 1, even!) on a fast machine. Now all of my programs are brand-new and all optimized-with-O3-just-for-me, and all of those things I'd held off on upgrading (because it would've been a pain, and I figured I could just get along without them) when I was running Slack got upgraded for me, and everything Just Works. And now my X is the prettiest X anywhere, and I'm all "brand new blackbox with cool themes" and "gtk2" and "bright orange, green, and black". And whenever I want, I can just go "emerge sync; emerge -u world" and the /whole freaking system/ will get brought up to date :)
Ahhh... Gentoo :) Where would the world be without Gentoo?
(I feel a little bit guilty about not running Slackware, after all these years of happy Slacking. As such, I will give Patrick Volkerding two links.)
... I've just been in a mood to install some OSs. eowyn (currently running gentoo, also very happily) might be getting some BSD variant in the near future, maybe, and I'm thinking treebeard is on his way to losing the redhat (which I haven't touched in weeks -- it was for the Linux kernel class, just to be standard with the stuff in the labs) and getting something bizarre like FreeDOS, or maybe something bizarre-er, which I've been meaning to set up for years, if I can swing figuring out the video compatability issues which've traditionally thwarted my plan9 efforts.
That, and I've just been sort of looking around, trying to figure out what I should learn next... I've got a hankering to get my C++ or Perl or SDL or gtk or Lisp or /something/ up to snuff... it feels like it's time to get proficient with a new language or toolkit or something, and I just need to pick one and sit down and focus on it...
So essentially, I'm home for some number of weeks, and my brain is spinning around, looking for something interesting to do, and attempts to find physical Tallahassee people to hang out with haven't been as fruitful as they could be, but I really need to get out of the house. Perhaps there'll be somebody interesting out in the woods, and perhaps I'll find them if I go and run.
