Bug me not
Software always has bugs, and free software is no exception to this.
When we think of free software, we think of software we can distribute, modify, study and of course, run. I don't spend a lot of my time studying or modifying free software, to be honest. There are lot of people who do this, and they're a lot smarter than me... well, most of them. Apparently, none of the people who write free software bug trackers ever actually use them to report a bug, or if they do, they have a very high tolerance for pain and annoyance.
On Sunday, I was unable to get to sleep, and had been downloading some distribution images, as I like to try and stay vaguely current with the very many distributions of GNU and Linux out there, and while I've previously avoided it, I had heard good things about the Gentoo Live CD. The best thing of all was that it got you up and running really quickly, which given my previous attempts at installing Gentoo, was something I was going to need.
Anyway, to cut a very long and boring piece of the story here, I downloaded the image and booted it in qemu and got a desktop and clicked through the installer and something went wrong. I checked and tried again, and it happened again. So, as stated on the installer, I went over to bugs.gentoo.org and tried to report it, and here's what I got...
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