Divine Lunacy

Everyday, I tell myself I am going to post today; Everyday, I think of something to post about. For some reason, I never end up posting. I think I am too lazy to post or something, but it is either that or force myself to clean my room at the moment… Now, this post is just putting of the inevitible cleaning of the room ( and… Why must drum sets and computers attract all the dust? ).

Since I last posted anything informational/mildly journal-like, I switched from my 10% mandrake, 90% I compiled myself to Fedora Core 3. For some reason, SELinux wasn’t completely working for me. I had the SELinux patched version of init compiled and installed, as well as util-linux, pam and openssh. ( Yeah, before the pam, I was using shadow passwords. I ended up booting to a rescue Cd several times to fix things, but in the end, it was all good. ) The main reason I switched is because I got really pissed off at Mandrake’s Glibc. There was a problem with md5.h being non-existent ( at least, I think that was a problem. ) I tried to compile Glibc from source… which is where things really bad. There was a problem compiling, probably something I could have fixed with a dependency or something, but I just got really mad at it…. I ran make, with the -k option. I built all of Glibc with -k, then I installed with -k, knowing that things would most likely be messed up. I broke all My c applications. basically, the only applications I could run were the ones that I already had running. Luckily, I had gaim runing at the time, so, I was able to seem half alive anyway. I could not open any new shells ( bash… hehe.. ). Luckily also, KDE is written in C++. Now, I am happily running Fedora Core 3, but trying to install over as many things as I can. ( well, delete it then install a self-compiled version ). SOmething along the line somewhere prompted me to switch to Vsftpd. It seems to be really fast, as everyone says, and the download was very small. I definitely lost features I had with Proftpd, but from what I have seen with Vsftpd, it is more efficient in many ways. Also, somewhere along the line, I was prompted to switch to X.org.

The most depressing part about switching to Fedora was definitely the prospect of facing more GTK+ compilations… They went without trouble this time. The whole package, and its dependancies installed without a single error.

Things aren’t all better now… I am facing some oscure library error when I try to install firefox. The same error Occurs when I try to run UT2k4. After scouring the internet, I was unable to find any useful information about it, but I will have to keep trying. It seemed to be a problem with the GCC install, so I compiled fresh from source to no avail… As if having errors trying to install a precompiled firefox isn’t enough, there is also some annoying error trying to compile from source. Luckily, though, Fedora core 3 comes with firefox installed ( although, it is the 1.0 preview )

As part of the switch to Fedora, I wiped my whole root partition, and reformatted it ext3… now, I can’t get my 2.6.10 kernel to boot. I’ll have to look into that. Well, compilng and installing lilo went fine. I can’t stand grub for the life of me… Now, that was a very long discombobulated post… *skips the proofreading*

*edit: Thanks to josh for downloading and and burning Fedora for me

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