At first I want to say, that I am using Minislack 1.1, and I wanted no comments saying something like "switch to Gentoo, because there is something called emerge ...". I know that in my case it would be better to switch to Gentoo, but it is not possible. Not yet. Furthermore, this entry should be an introduction to checkinstall for people, who are not running Gentoo and want to easily remove compiled programs.

I dislike to install binary packages. Rather, I prefer to compile everything from source. Ok, well, I like binary packages, because you can easily install/upgrade and remove them. But what I really dislike is, that in most cases, if not all, there are no packages for my arch (and of course there are not many tgz-packages at all)!

I liked FreeBSD, really! But I got some troubles, which forced me to switch back to my old friend Linux. I had some issue with my my wnic, to be precise, with my DLink-DWL-g520+. It didnnot want to work. And a Unix without an internet connection... Nah, I dunno, but i think this is not good!
But this was a minor issue. The major problem was, that the Xfree86 server crashed all the time, also after installing the nvidia driver! Though xfree was properly setup! And without to be able to connect to the repository and installing X.org, I know it was the time to dismiss FreeBSD. But not after managing to get the X.org sources and trying to compile them. Yes trying ...
I got frustrated, spending the whole weekend, trying to get the xserver to run and after zeroing out the FreeBSD partition (nasty, but I was angry), I had to think which Distro to install. Should I try somethin new?