introduction

December, 2003…The beginning of a new world order. The Linux virus began to flow in my veins around this date. At first, slowly…then harder and harder, until I got totally contaminated.

This contact first happened with Fedora Core 1 (kernel 2.4), which a geek friend of mine installed on my laptop. So that the transition from the Window$ world would not be too hard. Then the Gentoo‘s fine tuning aspect and total control feeling make me to switch to that awesome distribution.

Until then, Window$ totally disappeared from my computers…And how bizarre it could be, I don’t have the feeling anymore to be spied, or that my computer does strange things I never asked (like opening a fuckin’ window asking me what to do with this stupid CD-ROM I put in, while in a critical phase in Ennemy Territory), or that without doing a bunch of recommanded updates, my computer will be infested with all the fuckin’ viruses of the internet.

In short: total freedom of installing what I want when I want for doing what I want.

And don’t forget: Linux will maybe not always do what you want, but it’ll never do what you don’t want!!!

Gentoo on my computers

Acer TravelMate 800

My first try. As I said before, I first tried Fedora on it. It installed perfectly, and the goal was to familiarize with Linux. After a while, I switched to Gentoo. Following the Gentoo handbook, it finally resulted in a working Linux on my Laptop. Then began the battle to let OpenGL, WLAN 802.11b, and customized kernel run perfectly. After a while (and some tentation to throw this fu**ing laptop through the window), I could play Enemy territory or UT2004 through my WLAN card.

an old Compaq Presario 1525

Second Linux experience…Although it installed smoothly, it was SO SLOW (I’ll never congratulate myself enough of having installed stage 3…): about a couple of hours to compile the kernel.
But it’s sufficient to let run a little webserver to host a website like this one.
I’ve also planned to implement a mail server, and why not, a DNS server (new experiences are always welcome…).