I decided to load Gentoo on a dell computer.

I thought I could follow directions.

Little did I know.

Various problems in the directions made the going very slow.

I became very familiar with the LiveCD booting procedures and the grub.conf file.

Loading the X-server wasn't quite as bad, but ended up building two new kernels in the process.

I will say that I am familiar with the emerge procedures for adding features to Gentoo. Just wish Fedora worked the same way.

Loaded gnome on two computers.

I started looking at sendmail, but it was too late in the semester to actually get it running. I read most of the chapter on sendmail in the book and the first half goes into a lot about domain names and aliases. I wish I had more time to complete the sendmail activation.

I am running Fedora core 5 on my closet computer. Suppose I should call it my closet server. It is an old HP 667Mhz PIII computer. I don't need anything faster than that for the little work it does. I am running apache2 on it for dishing out web pages. I use it mostly for picture storage and access.

I had a little down time on the closet server last week due to GUI incompatibility with the httpd daemon. Luckily the GUI did make a backup of the .conf file that I could rename to fix the problem.

Tuesday night I put dd-wrt firmware on my Linksys router. Now I can ssh into it. It looks like it is running Linux now.

:)