You may or may not have heard of a man named Daniel Robbins. There might be more than one Daniel Robbins, but the one I’m talking about is the founder of Gentoo Linux. There was quite a stir around 8 months ago when he announced he was leaving Gentoo to work at Microsoft in their Linux lab. There was quite another stir just the other day when he quit Microsoft. Read more…
Over the weekend I rebuilt the software on my computer. I reinstalled Windows XP, as is necessary once in awhile. Windows for me now is just a Steam machine, so hopefully it will be a long while before I do this again. Luckily the legally free key I got in college is still good, and I didn’t even have to call in to MS to re-activate. Two things were finally fully confirmed for me during this install. First, Windows performance does indeed degrade over time. The older the install of Windows is, and the more it is used, the slower it gets. Secondly, a completely unpatched Windows XP is wicked fast. Every layer of updates you apply makes it slower. But I guess you have no choice if you don’t want to be hacked to bits. If you have Windows only to play single player games I highly suggest you disable all networking and use the original unpatched XP.
Ok, so my computer was in desperate need of a rebuild. I was running out of drive space on the disk where I keep all my mp3s. Also I had a really bad kernel configuration on my gentoo partition. Not only that, but too much KDE got in my system because I forgot an option in a config file. Before this week I was a 50/50 user. I would boot my computer to windows to play games. I had firefox, thunderbird, gaim and winamp/xmms in both OSes. So until I had to do some coding or such that I couldn’t do in windows I would stay there. Then I would stay booted in Linux until it was time to play a game again. The game usually had to be Steam because Puzzle Pirates runs in both. So I took the opportunity of this rebuild to try to be 90% linux instead of 50%. This is that story. Only computer geeks may be interested.
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