Update: New distro

[Joshua Bergland]

I'd spring for the TDK burner, I love my 16x. Get a burner with
Burn-proof capability (such as the TDK) and use the driveropt=burnproof
with cdrecord, and you will never end up with a coaster again. My first
burner was a Yamha, and had serious problems with it, lots of coasters
and the ones that finished ok, didn't work elsewhere.

Just my 2cents....
Josh Bergland

Rich Edelman wrote:

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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?
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>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.
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>>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).
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>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.
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>Rich
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