Psychotomy

so, my new box is an amd64.

every box i’ve installed since … uh … 94? 95? has been a slackware, with a few redhat exceptions when i installed what someone else wanted on their box. i’ve taken over a few rh boxes at the office, but i’m a slackware guy

except there’s no official 64-bit slack. i could recompile everything via crosscompilation for 64bit. and slamd64 actually DID that. it’s the official unofficial slack 64-bit port. (offical b/c it’s linked, unofficial b/c it’s done by someone other than patrick, and as evidenced by “slamd64″ rathre than, oh, say “slack64″ :o)

so i figured i’d give gentoo a shot. and i’m having to learn all about gentoo now :o

and i gotta figure out my X configs again and put them on the new box so i can make sure I have what i need off the old box.

whee :)

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