scumm_boy | A new year.

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2006 was a topsy-turvy year… I went from XP installs to Vista installs then back to XP installs… but I was feeling very *meh* towards my computer. It was boring. No umph.

So a new year has started, and a friend managed to get me interested in Desktop Linux again. I’ve run a couple day-to-day Linux installs, but they never lasted for one reason or another. The last one was probably in the very early 2000’s.

But I’m back up your ass with the resurrection! I’m packing Gentoo under the hood, and it’s nice! After spending a lot of time in a FreeBSD server environment, the portage system feels very natural. The custom compiled options do take a bit longer to install, but damn it! I miss watching esoteric compile strings flash by in my myriad of terminal windows.

And speaking of windows… where would a desktop Linux install be without a Windowmanager? I’ve chosen the Xorg backend with Fluxbox doing the minimalistic windows thing I’m working on getting the Nvidia Linux drivers going, and from there it’s a short hop to getting WINE installed which means World Of Warcraft under Linux

So far it’s been a blast. Just what I needed to get me interested in my computer again A+ would install again!