I am now the proud owner of a Linux system. First time I’ve ever owned one. I’ve worked on a lot of them, but never took the time to build my own.
I built GenToo for my ancient Dell P-III (500 MHz). I picked Gentoo because, unlike SUSE or RedHat 7.3, their default image booted the machine. I took that as a good sign and went through the three-days-and-counting build process. Right now it’s building apache from scratch. It seems to be the way these things are done in gentoo. I understand that I could just download the binaries, but why? I’ve got days to kill, since I don’t actually *need* this server for anything.
Hopefully it’ll house backups of the laptops, as well as the photo collection which is about to explode my 500MB limit at my personal website. I plan to use some truly geeky cron and MySQL hacks to keep the links live without paying for a static IP address.
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