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Some people are never satisfied
roseway:
I'm bored! Not with life generally, I hasten to add, but with the computing part of it. Everything has become too comfortable - an OS which is easy to use and configure and gives me no grief, hardware which works well and meets all my needs, a good internet connection which doesn't let me down (touch wood) and so on. I need a new challenge.
What I'm thinking of doing is installing something much more raw and geeky, just for the hell of it; one of those purist Linux distros which avoid nice friendly configuration dialogs and leave you to hand-edit the config files. I might have fun, or I might become very frustrated. I'll let you know.
Eric
kitz:
heh - good luck.
I dont seem to find much time to do anything these days for some reason.... mind you it didnt help that I just got very distracted playing the tower defence game posted in the other thread :-[
tickmike:
I built a server for a local charity run school to run 30 machines and that kept me quite for a few months of my spare time, it got the 'grey' mater working over time.
It was very satisfying that it all worked very well.
Do you use a spare machine to experiment on ?, I have about 10 :'( with W2k pro,W2K sever,various Linux Ditro's , XP pro, Linux Firewals etc.etc. I use a KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse switch) which helps to keep the clutter down !.
Also been trying 'windows virtual machine' .
I tend to do more of this sort of thing in the winter with the darker nights.
Keep us informed what you what you try.
Michael.
roseway:
I've got three machines, and I also use VMWare on my main working machine. The only Windows installation to be found here is a W2K setup in VMWare, and it hasn't been used for months.
I don't know what I'll choose to play with yet, but it probably won't be ultra-geeky, maybe Gentoo. As you say, it may not get a lot of attention until the nights draw in again.
Eric
roseway:
Just to report on (not much) progress, I've test-installed several distros over the last few weeks, and this comes to you from Vector Linux, which is a bit raw compared to the comfortable distros I have been using, but manageable by my brain cell. I've had to compile a couple of things from source to get them working properly, and there's some more to do. I'll probably stay with it for a while now until I get itchy feet again.
Others I've tried are:
PCLinuxOS - what I was using a month ago. Much too comfortable - everything works, no issues.
Kubuntu - almost as comfortable.
Sabayon - I was interested in this one, as it's a derivative of Gentoo, which is a 'compile everything from scratch' distro. But I couldn't get on with their forum, which uses a black theme which hurts my eyes, and no alternative theme was offered. (I've since realised that I could have switched off theming altogether in Firefox, but I didn't know that at the time.)
Gentoo - the installer crashed with an incomprehensible error message, so I've put it aside for another look in winter.
Mint - another Ubuntu derivative, with nothing really to distinguish it from Kubuntu.
Granular Linux - a derivative of PCLinuxOS, nothing much to distinguish it.
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