the corner office

Cool. My Gentoo system now has fluxbox happily chugging along, with sound (in a rare turn of fortune, my ALSA installation and configuration happened without a hitch). Gnome has been compiled, and a quick tyre-kicking had me rather impressed at how polished it's looking these days.

I'm hoping that either WINE or VMware will be able to take care of my Notes client and university Windows programming requirements, in which case I might be able to move the majority of my daily grind stuff across to Linux for good. I'm even making a concerted effort to try to like vim, although man, I do miss TextPad!

I also noticed that to download all the packages needed to get Eclipse 3.0 running (including JDK etc) was over 220 megs. That's a lot of bloody source code!