January 13, 2004

The fun begins

After many fights with my laptop and Window$ 2000, I finally decided to scrap it and put a useable OS on the thing. I installed Gentoo on my new server and rather liked the install and it's maintainability so I decided to go with that. After finding a place to store my 2+ GB of MP3's and other data, I finally started the install last night while watching TV. The base install went off without a hitch, but then I made a mistake. I decided to update the system and bring it current. Well, there are 33 packages that need updated, just for the base OS as it is installed from Stage 3. Not too bad you think? It's been compiling since about 10:00 last night and it's now 9:00 AM!! I'm not sure what is going on since it's running on a P4 with 384M of Ram and 512M swap. We'll see.

The main reasons that it took me so long to make this decision is that I use 2 pieces of software at work that I was unable to find a decent port/replacement for. For all of our DB work with Oracle, we use TOAD, and I use Outlook for email and it's decent calendar and contacts features. Well, I did some searching thanks to google and was able to find TOra to replace TOAD and found Ximian to replace Outlook.

So now my adventure begins. Keep checking back as I'm sure I will be posting little glitches I find and their solutions, etc.

Posted by doug at January 13, 2004 09:00 AM
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