Well then, to install Gentoo’s base system, it took me about 12 hours in total. Compiling everything is extremely time consuming. Also, if you thought Slackware was evilly hard, then you’ll die on Gentoo. Die. As long as you follow instructions, you’re alright. Luckily, I had another computer, so I didn’t have to print out 109 pages that is the installation handbook.

Of course, where it takes forever to compile stuff, it is easy to install software on Gentoo. None of the packages are on the CD, so you have to download your entire system, minus the install stages. I’ve got the base system down, but now it needs X. So to get X, all it took was # emerge xfree . I love Portage. Amazingly easy. Want a package? emerge it. That downloads and compiles it and it’s installed. Now, I just have to get Gnome and the desktop should be ready. After that are apps and stuff. Yaef!

Well, it took me about one day to make Gentoo useable for me. Here I am on Mozilla right now, waiting for Thunderbird, Firefox, Gaim, and XMMS to compile. Ah.

I come home to find that none of those four had actually compiled. It turns out that I shouldn’t be compiling huge apps at the same time, like OO.o.

I'm going to guess that my main box is out of commission for the next day or so, what with compiling Gentoo and all. I'm worried, because it seems like it's compiling glibc with every language possible. Ah well. Hopefully, I'll be able to use it in the afternoon sometime before getting it up and running.

Some of you may be wondering why there’s not much personal stuff in this here blog. Well, the answer to that is simple. I have two so-called blogs. This blog is for my public declarations and place to put oddities and weirdness and other stuff I think is important for people to know. My other blog is a LiveJournal. It’s for those not too lazy to go to here. That’s where all of my personal stuff goes. On the rare occassion of course, stuff will be placed in both.

In conclusion, my blog is my soapbox and my livejournal is my, uh, journal.

And for those of you wondering about xanga, I’ve never had a very high opinion of xanga or its users.