Well, last week I finally got around to plugging my desktop in after two months and moving.  I had gentoo on it and a lot of packages were out of date and broken and what not.  It’s understandable because the installation is probably a year and a half old and I was running ~x86 (the testing packages).  I also wanted to set my drives to have normal partitioning.  I’ve been running a software (md) raid 0 with 3 80gig drives for 2 years now and I haven’t had any problems, but I decided it’s best not to push my luck.

The plan was to install FreeBSD. Heh.  I got it almost working.  I got frustrated with the package system and I figure I will just save FreeBSD for a rainy day when I feel like upgrading my server (which is going on 331 days without a reboot).  Yeah, I fail at that.  I really like portage though…. a lot.  I can pretty much do a stage 1 gentoo install without docs.

Why am I going through all this effort to get a Unix/Linux machine up and running again?  Well, I have an idea for another project.  It involves a spotter plugin for the GIMP (somewhat like spot heal brush in Photoshop) but better?  Probably not better, but I have plans on making a special thing for making sure you inspect an entire image.  I’ll be damned if I have to develop GNU software on a Windows laptop with Cygwin!  Especially on a single monitor.

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