Slackware...Gentoo....Problems :(
So as today is Friday, I do not have very much time. Due to the fact I am a messianic Jew, I only have until around 4:30 when the sun goes down, Shabbat starts, and work ends. I have been through a pretty good generalized introduction to linux, so this will pretty much start my trials and or triumphs with linux. So lets get it started.
Today, I have officially decided, that I am going for a new distro. Ubuntu is great...But I want more. You know that feeling, when you have something great, but it just isn't enough? Well yeah, that is what I am going through. I love ubuntu, but it is just...not enough. Everything is done for me, there isn't any room to call it my own. That is precisely why I spent about an hour last night, trying to get gentoo up and running. That was interesting to say the least.....after an old disc couldn't accept my SATA hard drive, I had to load it with the "ide=nodma" parameter. Being a LiveCD I expected it to boot into a window manager so I could make sure it would support my environment....nope. I got a terminal. Which is good too, because I love the terminal, but the bad part is the REASON it booted the terminal. X crashed on me :|. Not so good signs so far. Well, this WAS a 2006.0 disc...so I went ahead and downloaded a 2007.0 once I went somewhere where I could get above 12.6KBPS :(. Anyway, all is good, I attempt to burn it to a cd...but for some reason, Firefox added 3 kb's to the file. Odd no? Yeah. That means that it is 700.3Mb's, which means, it wouldn't fit on my cd :|. So I went over to my windows partition, and IE would download the correct size, but at 25.bps on a 1500kbps connection....:\. Anyway, needless to say, after waiting a few minutes to see if the connection would spike, I decided that waiting 7 hours was not going to happen. So FINALLY the last thing I tried, which was amazingly enough, safari. It downloaded it in about 7 minutes, and everything was good. So I went to grab one of my cds (I brought three just in case of failure) well, it turns out, that being the intelligent being that I am *laughter in background) I forgot to label them, because they were actually linux distros. Ubuntu ultimate, ubuntu 7.10 and just a movie. They were all +R so I very well couldn't format them, or install something else. Well I was pretty discouraged at that. So when I came home, I finally burned it to a cd, and then popped the image in, booted her up. And after X broke, I loaded the command line (Here on out known as CLI-Command line interface) installer. It crashed upon setting my swap, it crashed installing to my usb hd, and it did some more crashing. :(. I have used gentoo before, but I have never had so many crashes. From what I have picked up, the gentoo installer is very unstable, apparently, not too many people (in retrospect naturally) have had successful journeys with the installer. I may try a chroot install later on, but now I have my focus on something else. Slackware. My goal is to install slackware here on my laptop. The reason why, is because it is highly configurable, and it just adds the little things, that seem to be very important to other people, and me. Slackwares init scripts, are actually like the BSD init scripts. Go read up on those if you want to know about those. Anyway, Slackware just appears to be very configurable, and very versatile. It is the oldest (surviving) maintained linux distribution, and it really puts you behind the wheel. It lets me configure exactly how I want it. I just need to download it, or purchase the CD's. Either way, I will grab it. So here before too long I will grab that and install it.
Just recently I did a fresh install. I run fluxbox with ubuntu, and basically two terminals. For some reason my wireless network card (Realtek RTL8187) doesn't like to load myspace, or photobucket, so I just pretty much use two terminals, one for elinks, and text browsing, and IRC, and the other for commands like file browsing, changing config files, etc. You should really head over to some good IRC channels, I listen to two podcasts (when I get the time) and those are linuxreality, by Chess Griffin, and the Lotta linux links podcast by Dave Yates. Great podcasts. You can check out the LinuxReality podcast at dun dun dun www.linuxreality.com and the Lotta Linux Links podcast at...you guessed it http://lottalinuxlinks.com And if you are into IRC like I am, check out the irc channels on irc.freenode.net #linuxreality and #lottalinuxlinks I am on there quite a bit of the time, and I know Dave Yates is on there frequently, and so is Chess Griffin. Great podcasts, and great IRC channels.
Right now, I am trying to pick up a little money, so I can support some linux projects, and maybe pick up some CD's. That is why, partly I set up this blog. I grabbed an AdSense account, so I can throw on those nasty ads, and pick up some cash. I also added a custom search bar for distrowatch, linuxreality, and lottalinuxlinks. Yay for more revenue! Welp I think I will rap it up for now.
Ryan
Today, I have officially decided, that I am going for a new distro. Ubuntu is great...But I want more. You know that feeling, when you have something great, but it just isn't enough? Well yeah, that is what I am going through. I love ubuntu, but it is just...not enough. Everything is done for me, there isn't any room to call it my own. That is precisely why I spent about an hour last night, trying to get gentoo up and running. That was interesting to say the least.....after an old disc couldn't accept my SATA hard drive, I had to load it with the "ide=nodma" parameter. Being a LiveCD I expected it to boot into a window manager so I could make sure it would support my environment....nope. I got a terminal. Which is good too, because I love the terminal, but the bad part is the REASON it booted the terminal. X crashed on me :|. Not so good signs so far. Well, this WAS a 2006.0 disc...so I went ahead and downloaded a 2007.0 once I went somewhere where I could get above 12.6KBPS :(. Anyway, all is good, I attempt to burn it to a cd...but for some reason, Firefox added 3 kb's to the file. Odd no? Yeah. That means that it is 700.3Mb's, which means, it wouldn't fit on my cd :|. So I went over to my windows partition, and IE would download the correct size, but at 25.bps on a 1500kbps connection....:\. Anyway, needless to say, after waiting a few minutes to see if the connection would spike, I decided that waiting 7 hours was not going to happen. So FINALLY the last thing I tried, which was amazingly enough, safari. It downloaded it in about 7 minutes, and everything was good. So I went to grab one of my cds (I brought three just in case of failure) well, it turns out, that being the intelligent being that I am *laughter in background) I forgot to label them, because they were actually linux distros. Ubuntu ultimate, ubuntu 7.10 and just a movie. They were all +R so I very well couldn't format them, or install something else. Well I was pretty discouraged at that. So when I came home, I finally burned it to a cd, and then popped the image in, booted her up. And after X broke, I loaded the command line (Here on out known as CLI-Command line interface) installer. It crashed upon setting my swap, it crashed installing to my usb hd, and it did some more crashing. :(. I have used gentoo before, but I have never had so many crashes. From what I have picked up, the gentoo installer is very unstable, apparently, not too many people (in retrospect naturally) have had successful journeys with the installer. I may try a chroot install later on, but now I have my focus on something else. Slackware. My goal is to install slackware here on my laptop. The reason why, is because it is highly configurable, and it just adds the little things, that seem to be very important to other people, and me. Slackwares init scripts, are actually like the BSD init scripts. Go read up on those if you want to know about those. Anyway, Slackware just appears to be very configurable, and very versatile. It is the oldest (surviving) maintained linux distribution, and it really puts you behind the wheel. It lets me configure exactly how I want it. I just need to download it, or purchase the CD's. Either way, I will grab it. So here before too long I will grab that and install it.
Just recently I did a fresh install. I run fluxbox with ubuntu, and basically two terminals. For some reason my wireless network card (Realtek RTL8187) doesn't like to load myspace, or photobucket, so I just pretty much use two terminals, one for elinks, and text browsing, and IRC, and the other for commands like file browsing, changing config files, etc. You should really head over to some good IRC channels, I listen to two podcasts (when I get the time) and those are linuxreality, by Chess Griffin, and the Lotta linux links podcast by Dave Yates. Great podcasts. You can check out the LinuxReality podcast at dun dun dun www.linuxreality.com and the Lotta Linux Links podcast at...you guessed it http://lottalinuxlinks.com And if you are into IRC like I am, check out the irc channels on irc.freenode.net #linuxreality and #lottalinuxlinks I am on there quite a bit of the time, and I know Dave Yates is on there frequently, and so is Chess Griffin. Great podcasts, and great IRC channels.
Right now, I am trying to pick up a little money, so I can support some linux projects, and maybe pick up some CD's. That is why, partly I set up this blog. I grabbed an AdSense account, so I can throw on those nasty ads, and pick up some cash. I also added a custom search bar for distrowatch, linuxreality, and lottalinuxlinks. Yay for more revenue! Welp I think I will rap it up for now.
Ryan
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