{"id":23,"date":"2007-01-23T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.galador.org\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-01-23T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:21:59","slug":"exciting-new-stuff-in-the-realm-of-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/exciting-new-stuff-in-the-realm-of-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting New Stuff in the Realm of Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Or at least for my desktop.  <\/p>\n<p>I recently decided on a whim to install a new Linux distribution.  Well, really, I&#8217;ve been planning it for a while, now (at least for my desktop&#8230; I think my laptop&#8217;s going to stay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>, at least for a little while longer).  So, after much deliberation, I narrowed it down to between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/\">Gentoo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a>.  I decided to try Gentoo out first, because I&#8217;d heard that Gentoo was for the masochist Linux users who like to compile every program with the tiniest little optimization available, and I figured I would end up giving that one up and installing Debian instead.<\/p>\n<p>However, my assumption turned out to be wrong, and I actually like Gentoo right now.  So far, however, all I&#8217;ve really done is installed the thing (which turned out to be much easier than planned), and started to update Portage (Gentoo&#8217;s package manager).  My main gripe right now is that it takes <strong>forever  <\/strong>(and I mean that) to update the Portage package trees.  I mean, sure this is updating a CD from last year, but still&#8230; It&#8217;s been going for at least three hours now.  And that&#8217;s just updating my computer so that <em>I can install other updates<\/em>.  I haven&#8217;t had to mess with the nasty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/doc\/en\/handbook\/2006.1\/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&#038;chap=2\"><span class=\"caps\">USE<\/span> flags<\/a> or anything like that, yet, so I haven&#8217;t quite used it enough to warrant a full review.  That&#8217;ll probably be saved for another entry.  As it stands right now, though, I really like Gentoo, and it seems to work quite well.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in later for more Linux-y goodness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackware.com\/\">Slackware<\/a> is the distro of choice for those Linux masochists.  ;P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least for my desktop. I recently decided on a whim to install a new Linux distribution. Well, really, I&#8217;ve been planning it for a while, now (at least for my desktop&#8230; I think my laptop&#8217;s going to stay Ubuntu, at least for a little while longer). So, after much deliberation, I narrowed it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/exciting-new-stuff-in-the-realm-of-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exciting New Stuff in the Realm of Computers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}