{"id":72,"date":"2006-04-02T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T10:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-04-02T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T10:35:32","slug":"install-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Install Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting sick of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\" title=\"Ubuntu Website\" class=\"content\">Ubuntu<\/a> running on my laptop. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Ubuntu is a terrible distribution, very easy to install and to use, and integrating everything you need without big troubles. It&#8217;s a great replacement of choice for Window$.<\/p>\n<p>So, why am I getting sick of it? It&#8217;s just that it is <strong>too<\/strong> complete. It installs by default a lot of stuff I don&#8217;t need, and never will. I <s>am<\/s> was using it on my laptop: a Acer TravelMate 800, Centrino 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, &#8230; I used to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\" title=\"Gentoo: the best distro ever!!!\" class=\"content\">Gentoo<\/a> on it in the past, until the on-board ATI video card has <a href=\"index.php?p=48\" title=\"Broken ATI Card\" class=\"content\">loosely abandonned me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I got it back from repair, I put Ubuntu on it: everything worked out of the box. But it was so slooooow. Maybe I&#8217;m used to the speed of my new AMD64 Desktop, but I still remember the laptop was running faster and smoother under Gentoo.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\" title=\"Debian Website\" class=\"content\">Debian<\/a> a (short) try&#8230; The installation is easy, menu driven, and short. But then begins the struggle to have all the packages I need (Xorg, Firefox 1.5, ipw2100, &#8230;). I was surprised to find only Firefox version 1.0.4 in the stable branch. I thought there was some security hole in it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nevermind&#8230; I leave debian on a small partition of my drive, maybe for further use, but I&#8217;m currently downloading Gentoo 2006.0 to give my laptop a second breath!!!<\/p>\n<p>See you soon for feedback about the last release&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting sick of Ubuntu running on my laptop. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Ubuntu is a terrible distribution, very easy to install and to use, and integrating everything you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}