Its that time again
Yesterday was not a very good day for Father.
As most of you know, I do not like using M$ products, and feel that Windoze is the worst. I much prefer using Linux. I’ve been using it for since 1995, and although I am not a guru yet I have a good deal of skills with it. I recently started using a distribution of linux called Gentoo linux. It allows me to upgrade my systems with very little effort, is easy to configure, and is probably the most stable distro I’ve used. I’ve been using it for the past 3 years, and my last install was November of 2004.
Usually, I like to completely wipe and reinstall a system every year just to free space, get programs off I don’t use anymore or forgot about, change passwords, and completely clean the hard drive. Its hard for me to do this on my laptop though cause its so hard to configure at times, and usually takes me a month to get things back the way I want them. Unfortunately I’ll be doing this tomorrow though. I changed some settings on my computer yesterday, tried to recompile software, and tried to upgrade but it crashed out for some reason. Took me 3-4 hours just to get the software installation going again. I had to hack around configuration files, and didn’t even get everything I wanted done.
I figure its about time for me to do a reinstall anyway as two versions have come out since I’ve done my last reinstall. Luckily I was smart enough last time to document the entire install process so all I’ll have to do is follow the guide again. This will be a good chance for me to create the install documentation I was working on last time. Now that I have a web page up and running, it will be a good addition to my blog and documents.
