I haven’t really hit any snags with installing Arch, which leaves me with little to blog about the process. I’m slowly copying over stuff from my laptop and my desktop Slackware install, which is tedious. For bringing over Firefox stuff, the extensions FEBE, CLEO, and OPIE have been extremely helpful. I’ve installed The Chakra Project‘s [...]
Since I started out with Gentoo, I’m used to colors in virtual consoles and terminal emulators. There’s a small but vocal group of Gentooers who hate them and switch everything to monochrome, but I couldn’t live with that at this point. Slackware sticks with basic white-on-black, so I have to tweak things a little. Father-of-Gentoo [...]
As it turns out, there’s really very little to blog about regarding my Slackware 12.1 installation. Almost everything Just Works. Update: I gave up on the approach below and solved the problem by modifying the kdeeject script per comment 13 in this Gentoo bug report. This seems a lot better than screwing with the device’s [...]
Despite my hatred of web forums, there are some I need to visit fairly regularly. For example, while I generally use Gentoo’s user mailing list if I have a question, searching the Gentoo forums can turn up a lot of good info. It also turns up a lot of avatars I don’t want to see, [...]
I’ve played with Compiz with a few livecds and I like it, so when I noticed Slackware 12 came with Compiz 0.5 I decided to use it on my desktop. I got it running more-or-less ok using this howto posting as a guide. Without GNOME, it’s very difficult and frustrating to tweak the Compiz settings. [...]
I guess I’ll continue to blog about setting up Slackware 12 on my desktop. I’ve just installed the driver for my cheap Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1020. I call it cheap; it’s a very low-end USB laser printer, but it does a great job for me. Don’t buy it from links on HP’s site, though — I [...]
I use Gentoo GNU/Linux, and I’ve been thinking a bit about why I use Gentoo instead of some other distribution. One of the main reasons has to do with my initial experiences with Gentoo, several years ago. It must have been sometime in 2002 that I installed it for the first time. It was the [...]