If there is one thing I love, its a good install story. The trial and tribulations of the people who think they know what they’re doing and how badly they screw it up.

I actually installed Gentoo this weekend. At this point my only  saving grace when it comes to installing Gentoo is I’ve screwed up in just about every way possible so when I screw it up these days I generally know how to get out of it. Everything went great except for the vga parameter in my grub.conf. I should write down which one I use because I spend at least an hour rebooting a blank screen every time trying to figure out the right one.

One thing I have noticed though is the ridiculous amount of posts (blogs and forums) on the speed comparisons of the various package managers. Personally, numbers mean nothing to me, speed is subjective. Just like how my car feels really fast at 50 on curvy road but slow as hell at 50 on the interstate. What I’m getting to here is that the discussion of speed always leads to other talks about how terribly hard it is to setup the various package managers. Well, I’ll just tell you right now, anyone who cannot get paludis up and running within 5 minutes of installing is an idiot. The portage2paludis.bash script has worked flawlessly for me every time.

Regardless of all of that, I now have Gentoo Linux, Fluxbox, and Paludis all working together to make me a happy camper.

Enjoy the Penguins!