Jul
26
2005

The Rum Diary

(Add / View Comments) (0)Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 07:40:13 pm
(Posted Under: Books)
Stuck Outside of Phoenix and The Outsiders down, I'm onto The Rum Diary. A long trip to work is at least good for reading. I've read more in the last 3 months than I have since primary school I think. The last time I'd read a book was Cat's Cradle, I don't even remember when, probably over four years ago, and before that would have been high school.

Reading is typically something "I don't have time for", however I'm quite enjoying having reading time on the way to and from work.

Anyway, a great line today I read in The Rum Diary:

I quickly agreed, feeling that almost anything would be preferable to sitting there and stewing in my own lust.
Jul
26
2005

The More I Work With Redhat...

(Add / View Comments) (0)Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 11:02:59 am
(Posted Under: Linux Linux)
...the more I love Gentoo.

Okay, so I don't really need anything to make me love Gentoo admitadly! It certainly makes me miss working with it (exclusively).

The amount of time yum takes before it does any installing kills me. Portage immediately lets you know whether a package exists or not. I'm so over waiting 30 seconds jusjt for yum to tell me "I don't know about package blah!". Sheesh. Reminds me a little of apt-get back in the Debian days (ha - a year ago I was still using Debian, but it seems so long ago!), though admitadly that was a slow machine. This is Fedora running as a virtual machine on a dual 3.0Ghz Dell box. All that downloading and checking whenever you run yum is such a time consuming pain in the ass.

Let alone the fact that I'm installing dependancies for amaavisd-new manually! How I miss emerge -v amavisd-new, which automatically takes care of dependancies. The sheer fact that amavisd-new can't be installed using yum is such a pain.

And sheesh, choose a package management tool and just make it work! rpm, yum, apt-get,... I'm currently using each one, because each package seems to require a different one to work. God, just choose one and make it work! Give me good old portage any day!

I admit that some of my frustration must stem from unfamilarity of Redhat, though I can say without hesitation that Gentoo is by far the best and less frustrating (well, not initially, but that's another blog for another day) distribution I've worked with. And that I don't really care for Fedora. [wink]

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