My new Geek Score: -6 uniVerse lengths (that’s, like, really super big number times -6). I tried installing Gentoo on the old laptop; too bad I didn’t make it past the kernel compile. Not for a lack of knowledge, to be sure, but because the old hardware overheated while trying to build the kernel. I could limp it along by restarting the compile process over and over and inching past every few compilations. But really, all that would buy me was a hobbled kernel – in Gentoo, everything is from source (remember?), and I had a long way to go before I could fire up XFCE and Abiword and cvs checkout my work in progress.
So, defeated, I put in the ubuntu cd – which crashed during the install. I smell hardware failure (figuratively), but am going to let the machine cool down and start over again.
At least I have the netbook still…hon, when you read this, find some wood for me to knock on…