Productive Days
I have two new gentoo systems up to the CLI stage. Frame Buffer came up the first time. (I must be getting better at this.) One system came up to a kde desktop once, now it is erroring out loading X (and writing a xorg.conf file, claiming no devices. It worked before. Hmmmm....)
The second system is older, it errored in a package compile. Time to research ebuild logs. Hopefully something simple.
I am still please with myself. I totally hosed both systems at this point (earlier actually) the last time I tried. Stupid stuff. I do most of the configuration from my main system through ssh, much easier to cut and paste commands. That also gives me a way to document each command in an install file, so I know what I did, and what I have. (things like the output of lspci -v, for starters) It is not foolproof (demonstrably), but it gets me where I need to go.
I am moving away from *ubuntu for my systems, Canonical has gotten a bit proprietary for my tastes. They are also playing on the bleeding edge, something I don't need. The bleeding edge problem is why I stayed away from Red Hat. I don't pick technology companies very well at all. I had a handy little income stream from Caldera linux for several years, then Suse was my preferred choice. I think I want to stick with gentoo for a while, I am not sure I can turn it into an income stream, but it does what I want, and I understand where it is coming from.
The second system is older, it errored in a package compile. Time to research ebuild logs. Hopefully something simple.
I am still please with myself. I totally hosed both systems at this point (earlier actually) the last time I tried. Stupid stuff. I do most of the configuration from my main system through ssh, much easier to cut and paste commands. That also gives me a way to document each command in an install file, so I know what I did, and what I have. (things like the output of lspci -v, for starters) It is not foolproof (demonstrably), but it gets me where I need to go.
I am moving away from *ubuntu for my systems, Canonical has gotten a bit proprietary for my tastes. They are also playing on the bleeding edge, something I don't need. The bleeding edge problem is why I stayed away from Red Hat. I don't pick technology companies very well at all. I had a handy little income stream from Caldera linux for several years, then Suse was my preferred choice. I think I want to stick with gentoo for a while, I am not sure I can turn it into an income stream, but it does what I want, and I understand where it is coming from.