Update: New distro

[Rich Edelman]

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>    I will not be burning a gentoo Linux yet. My CDRW has decided to crap
> out. I can no longer position the read head for CDR/W disks. A HW error.
> Still reads CD formats. So it's off to the wilds of Southern KC for a
> new writeable, any suggestions?

TDK has a 32x burner that's either out, or will be in a few days... Micro 
Center has it in their latest flyer for $150. Aside from that, Yamaha drives 
are pretty good.

> I'm not sure I like the LFS. I doesn't include any of the add on
> programs (X, multimedia, chat, mail, apache, etc). Not that it is hard
> to find these things. Still it'll be a good learning experience, it
> already has me creating some install/configure scripts (in addition to
> the ones they wrote).
Take a look at the latest (CVS) hints (hints.linuxfromscratch.org, I 
believe). They have howtos for compiling X and even optimized KDE. KDE built 
with glibc 2.2.5 and optimized for your machine is screaming fast. Especially 
with a nice kernel, like the mjc tree, which has all the performance 
enhancing patches for it. Preemptive, lock-breaking, and the new scheduler 
really help out on latency issues. :)  That's what I'm running at home now. 
Haven't had time to really build anything else, like apache or mysql or 
anything, due to having no power most of last week. Oh well, that'll be my 
project for this week.

Rich