While doing other things, I frequently enjoy playing with operating systems. My latest trial was with Arch Linux. I was trying to get this set up on my laptop. It seemed like a reasonable request. Installation was annoying. It failed half way through installing the packages the first time. Second time Grub wasn’t right. Third time I won. For some reasion, it doesn’t load network on boot, but that was an easy fix by adding b44 to rc.conf and rebooting. I followed that up by using pacman to install xorg and then gnome. Well, that’s about as far as i ever got. It seemed there was something up with xorg. First i got the mouse wrong (it’s /dev/input/mouse0 not /dev/mouse). I also forgot my refreshrate on my laptop so i had to do that again. After all this, it couldn’t find the window manager. GAH. Now I’m installing gentoo there. I’m going to have a fun operating system there. I demand it!
Gentoo:
I’ve always loved Gentoo. Some of the things that others dislike (and at times they can bother me) I can truely enjoy. I love installing Gentoo, the worst part about the operating system. It makes sense and you don’t ever have to just trust what’s going on. You are doing everything. I don’t have a gui yet, but that’s being built. I hope this works out well, like really well. If it works out well enough, I can keep it on my lappy all the time, but… something is always not compatible. We shall see how this turns out… in several hours