mindful iterations

I really wish I would have seen this: http://sidux.com/Article420.html before I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. Hopefully this gets straightened out soon.

I'm totally annoyed, which seems to be the theme for the day.

And, my system's fan keeps coming on.  I have an uneasy feeling about that.

Feh. 

So, now I'm running Sidux, which is notably faster than Ubuntu.

 I'm on the 2.6.23.9 Kernel.  I did have some issues installing, as the installer did not write Grub's menu entry properly. It couldn't find my root partition and it kept telling me that job control was turned off, along with an intramfs prompt. 

After examining the entry in the grub menu, I discovered that it left the uuid blank for root.  So, after trying to put the uuid in, and it failing miserably, I changed it to reflect root=/my/device.

Booted up perfectly after that.

There are a few things I need to tweak, but overall, I'm pretty satisfied.  One of the niceties of installing this was that the install took all of 8 1/2 minutes.  Not bad. :)

If you're interested in checking out sidux, you can go to sidux' home page. 

I have my /home stuff on a separate partiiton which means all my settings have been retained.  Anyway, enough blogging about this - I'm going to explore my system. :)  Next step - apt-get install ruby :) 

Hardy Heron didn't happen.  Well, it started to, but then at the very end, it didn't.  So, I took about 30 minutes of deep contemplation and since I was told by the upgrade process that my system may be unstable, decided to backup all my stuff from my main partition (config files that I need) and put 'em over to my spare partition.

I just finished downloading the image of Sidux.  I'm going to install it.  What the hell, eh?  I like more 'bleeding edge' stuff and I also enjoy the package management that comes along with distros other than Gentoo.  So, here goes nothin' :)