A Gentoo diary part 1
It's been a while since I promised to write about my Gentoo desktops. In the intro, I gave some general information about Gentoo, and explained my setup.
The reason I didn't write a bit earlier is, amongst others, not that much interesting happened the last few weeks. Anyway, let's talk about what did happen: I set up an old 300 mHz server with Gentoo, tried to make distributed compiling work, learned a bit more about Windowmaker, tried to get a Broadcom Wireless card working on a laptop, switched to Grub, and finally got rid of Xmms. Uhhm, the latter kind of unnoticeable.
Switch from Lilo to Grub
For three years now, I've been using Lilo as my boot loader. It had always been sufficient, though I knew Grub was the 'better' boot loader. But here was my problem: Grub is rather, uhhm, elaborate.
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