gentoo - wow!! - progress

[dep]

begin  Ken Moffat's  quote:
| dep wrote
|
| >redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it.
|
| What do you use?

right now -- and by this i really *do* mean for the moment -- a 
severely hacked SuSE 7.2 on my production machine, and a collection 
of various other distros on other machines, though i intend to bring 
or try to bring a little more order to this disarray over the next 
few weeks, limiting my lab rat stuff to just my lab rat machine. the 
catalyst for this is my acquisition of two thinkpad 240s with max 
memory, extra batteries, and the whole range of accessories, 
off-lease and refurbed, for cheap. this brings the number of machines 
around here above the critical point where it's just two damn 
complicated to have a different distribution on every machine in the 
place. i'm therefore auditioning distributions, with performance an 
important issue -- unlike some, i see no virtue in software that 
requires a 1-gig machine with 256 megs of memory for adequate 
performance. anybody can produce such software. the trick is getting 
performance out of a system of far less resources, and that is an 
area on which few have concentrated. it will, therefore, come as no 
surprise that a leading contender is slackware.

while i'm at it -- and if no one responds, i'll send this part out 
standalone -- i've been beating myself bloody over the last few 
months trying to get a linux machine to work with the ethernet data 
ports now commonly found in hotel rooms. i fear that these are set up 
largely for win2k's horrible and unsecure plug-and-play network 
stuff; in any case, i've spent hours and hours trying to get 
connections, to no avail. anybody here ever get one of these things 
to work in linux?

-- 
dep

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envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.