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Tomorrow night is STM sharing. It is going to roxor. So then, bring yourself over whoever reads this. The church at 8 pm, Friday July 30. Go go go!

How annoying. One week after I installed Gentoo 2004.1, what do they do? Release Gentoo 2004.2. And now, XFree is deprecated. Now I'm going to uninstall xfree and have to spend all of that time updating to X.org. Grah. Good thing I'm out today. Don't have to wait for that stupid thing to compile. Of course, being me, something has to go wrong with this. Yay!

So what has happened in the past few days?

I've managed to get the courage to switch to Linux. Let's have a recap of what has transpired with my efforts to ditch Windows over the years:

2002: Installed Mandrake 8. Deleted it within hours.
2003: Installed Red Hat 9. Forgotten and eventually deleted in favour of more space.
2004, a few months ago: Installed Slackware 9.1. Permissions problems and lack of gaming support led to deletion.
Today: Gentoo Linux. Compiled everything from source. Used Portage to manage software. Uninstalled every non-essential app in Windows, repartitioned drive to make room for future Linux exploits. Gaming support, printing support, graphics and web design, OpenOffice for PowerPoint stuff. Life looks good on this side of Linux. There is no shortage of apps and whatever I can't find, I'll just use WINE or Cedega to handle those Windows apps. There are still some kinks in the system, but this is more stable/fast than anything Windows could ever scrape up. I believe I have truly switched.

Once again, I have begun to put together a plan to rid myself of the spawn of the devil: Windows. Last time, I got comfortable using it until a kernel recompile went awry. This time, I’ll make it. I’m still debating on using Slackware or Gentoo. But this time, I cannot leave any reason to go back to Windows. I’ll be taking everything with me this time: games, apps, and docs. I’m also hoping of reducing the size of that NTFS partition so I can actually move all of my stuff. If all goes well, I’m hoping that I can reduce the NTFS down to about 5 GB and have everything else be for Linux.