System Rebuild Progress.

[swestrup]

Well, yesterday I spent finding and installing new drivers and system patches and such. I haven't finished that yet -- I've yet to install my modem driver and I haven't gone to the ASUS website to find out if there is a newer version of my BIOS or updated system drivers I should be using (Their automated utility claims not, but its Engrish is so bad it may, in fact, be trying to tell me something else so I need to double-check).

Today will, no-doubt, be spent finding and installing the latest versions of the various bits of free software that I use. In at least one case (Xemacs) that is going to be rather involved since I've been using a pre-release version that needs to be compiled from scratch (because I insist on Unicode support, and its broken in the latest public release for Windows, but fixed in the CVS).

I'm sure I've got a ton of other things on my to-do list to get this system back to where I want it, but right now the lingering effects of that migraine are making it difficult to remember them all.

Ah well, I always figure it takes me 3-4 days to configure a Windows system to my liking, and today is only day 2. (It takes me much longer for a Linux system, BTW, partly due to unfamiliarity, and partly because I keep finding things I expect to be able to configure -- but can't.)

Comments

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Ah, but on a Linux system you can copy your home directory and keep your configurations forever!

[swestrup]

Only if you have no system-wide services to re-install. Things like mail servers, sshd servers, web servers, etc, etc.

It also matters which programs you've installed via RPM or apt-get, and which you've downloaded and compiled yourself (because you needed to set non-standard options).

I find its just as much work (if not more) to find all of the modifications one has done to a Linux box as with a Windows one.

Its the main reason I've never moved my web/mail server away from Mandriva to something like Ubuntu.