WARNING: Geek Rant Ahead!!!…you’re on your own from here…
/rant on
I don’t know how many people read my musings, but for those who do, I bet you’ve realized that I’m a bit of a Linux fan. Right now I run Gentoo, not because its a geek distro, but because its easy to maintain and relatively crashless (I say relatively because someday it may crash, really, it may). There’s only one problem that I am finding right now. I’m sure that its the same for any of the testing or bleeding edge branches of any distro (like Mandrake Cooker or Debian Sid). I run testing so I get all the new stuff. Its not that Gentoo’s got a problem. Its that X.org has a problem. For some reason, after the 6.8.0 release, they stopped supporting hardware accelleration, in favor of composite, which, although neat, is resource-intensive and only good for pretty screenshots, IMHO. Since I run testing, I get the newest software that’s proclaimed stable enough for human consumption, which means it tries to update X.org every time I emerge --sync It overwrites my /package.mask file every time. I guess that I’ve gotta read the forum and how-tos to find out how to mask a package on update instead of editing a file.
/rant off
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