Gentoo (Part I of many)

It's been a week since I switched from MS windows to Gentoo Linux. Gotta say I enjoyed every bit of the experience, well, maybe not the wait during compile of anything X-related, but it's been a blast.

During the week, my fathers' main system has a harddisk failure, and very naturally my gentoo-filled harddisk was used for replacement, formatted and re-installed with Windows XP. I was left with a system no persistent memory unit. No harddisk, no usb-storage, nothing.

Knoppix very naturally became my only choice. As luck would have it, I have just downloaded and burnt a copy off Knoppix's official mirror from Taiwan, and after a 2-minute-boot-sequence, I was back with internet access and ssh support. Everything I want to download off the web has to be stored on a remote server at moliu.com, but other than that everything's working great.

I'll talk about my Gentoo experience in following posts.