About a month ago, I installed Gentoo on the new-to-me Acer Aspire1. Installation went like anything else, it is just a normal x86 host after all. I don’t have everything on it working, because I don’t care. If you are looking for additional resources on getting the extras working, you may want to look here or here. The exciting part, that I got working and am ready to announce publicly, is my new atom-x86 binpkg repo.
In the mail today, I got the Efika MX Open Client. My first impressions are pretty good. No noise and no moving parts, it should last for a long time. It comes with Ubuntu 9.10 minimal on it out of the box. That HDMI output makes it the best text console I have ever seen on my 40” 1080p LCD TV! Seriously though, on my TODO: Analyze the possibilities for a HTPC.
It has been months since seeqpod was shutdown. I have finally found fl4sh.com. I took this recommendation/review and went ahead and signed up for an account. After all, I needed a [pandora][4] replacement after they limited free listening to 40 hours per month! Now, if I only had my saved seeqpod playlists! Oh well, rock on. [4]: http://www.pandora.com/
I’ve used a custom ~/.screenrc file for at least a year now. I find that this snippet helps improve the usability for me. #Custom Stuff caption always "%{= wb}$USER @ %H %-Lw%{= r}%50%n* %t%{-}%+Lw%< %-=<< (%c.%s)" activity "%c activity - %n%f %t" bell "%c bell - %n%f %t^G" vbell_msg " *beep* " startup_message off defscrollback 500 multiuser off # Always start screen with utf8 enabled. (screen -U) defutf8 on Output
As Dan writes, I too survive work by using [Gentoo Prefix][2]. %% uname -a HP-UX localhost B.11.31 U 9000/800 HP-UX %% gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Gentoo 4.2.4-r01.2 p1.1) %% bash --version GNU bash, version 4.0.35(1)-release (hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.31) %% ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 8.1 Packaged by Gentoo (8.1 (p1)) Thanks to haubi for putting effort into the necessary upstream changes/patches for hppa-hpux support! [2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/