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.<\/p>\n
This contact first happened with Fedora Core<\/a> 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<\/a>‘s fine tuning aspect and total control feeling make me to switch to that awesome distribution.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n In short: total freedom of installing what I want when I want for doing what I want.<\/p>\n And don’t forget: Linux will maybe not always do what you want, but it’ll never do what you don’t want!!!<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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. 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gentoo on my computers<\/h3>\n
Acer TravelMate 800<\/h4>\n
an old Compaq Presario 1525<\/h4>\n
\nBut it’s sufficient to let run a little webserver to host a website like this one.
\nI’ve also planned to implement a mail server, and why not, a DNS server (new experiences are always welcome…).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"