More Laptop Geekery

[graafen]

It was a Bad Idea^TM for me to build primal with Debian Etch (Stable). Sure things will be stable, but it's too old for me to do what I want to with it.

So I'm going to see about slapping Gentoo on it when I replace the 12GB HDD with a 40GB one. I know it means that it's gonna take a long while for things to compile/install, but it's a lot more current and I can configure things specifically for my machine. As I'll only be installing FluxBox as the WM and a few other minimal applications for web-browsing, email, and IMs it'll be worth the hassle.

I might still try xubuntu though.

Comments

[budlite.livejournal.com]

What does Etch lack that you want, out of curiosity?

[graafen]

The latest release of OpenBox, amongst other things, although I notice that it's now in unstable.

[graafen]

And what I meant to say is that I notice that the latest version of OpenBox is in testing.

[budlite.livejournal.com]

Testing and unstable are generally considered more appropriate for desktop use anyway - I run Testing myself, and things are generally up to date in a reasonable time.

(go go Openbox!)