Gentoo
May 27th 2004
Warning: very nerdy post follows.
I spent today installing Gentoo Linux (don’t worry, I did other things too), and might I say that it’s gotten better since the last time I tried it, especially the installation manual — the best I’ve ever seen — and it needs it. It probably also helps that I took a class on machine structures, and now understand what’s happening when I say “emerge gnome” and it takes 28 hours compiling the entire thing from source code. Okay, so I didn’t do that. I used the precompiled packages… from a stage 3 install… I might try stage 1 someday if I’m really bored (Stage 3 is mostly compiled, and takes less time; Stage 1 is completely uncompiled (as in, you have to compile the compiler first) and takes forever and a day and a half to install).
Let me just say, for those of you who decided to skip the last paragraph, that watching lines of code fly by a screen with no graphics makes me feel the most nerdy I’ve felt in a long time. ::
dude… the nerdiest I’ve ever felt was sitting at work writing x86 ASM code for my last project at DVC CS61C. I had nearly 5000 lines of asm code that I had yet to comment and class was in like 2 hours.
masm hexdump.asm hexdump.exe
that was nerdy.
*bows down to thy superior nerdiness*
Glad you’re putting summer to good work…