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So since this is my study week I felt it was time to reinstall my old laptop. It actually is a good idea since well I can learn and when I need a break just check the machine. Ah well enough about a nerds reasons to play with his computers.

So Distcc is running on it again so compiletimes should be lower now. Further more I’m planing on putting out my old Monitor again. Since I won’t be taking the laptop with me I figured I’d give it a nice place on my desk. But then again. Why not hook up the old monitor. Ah well All things aside. It is going to be a huge screen

Further more I’m planning on compiling multiple desktop enviorments. Ofcourse KDE. But I also want to try out KDE4. So I think i’ll be checking out the svn repo very soon And well who know. Maybe i’ll even try some other

Ah well that is it for now. It will propbaly take some time to get this done since well the laptop is over at my folks house and the largest part of the week I’m in Amsterdam.. But we’ll how things go

So you all know about my new laptop I assume. Else see my previous posts. Anyway I was thinking about making my new laptop more of a graphical thing.

Now the first thing i wanted was hardware acceleration. However it seems my Ati Xpress 200M is not well supported by the opensource drivers. Now I hear you think why not switch to the propiotry drivers? Well because then I need to compile gcc-3. I mean what is that about. So I will stay with the opensource drivers and wait till hardware acceleration is fully supported. Wich I believe won’t take to long because the Xpress 200M is shipped in a lot of laptops these days.

So I spend today to compile X and KDE. Which well went very smooth. Currently it I’m writing this from a fresh compiled konqueror. Kmail is done. Akregator. So the basics for my daily needs (I already compiled VI). I now also boot from kdm. I figured that I start X for 99% of the times. And altough it looks much cooler to be outside X when you are on te terras drinking a beer this is actually more confortable.

Speaking of comfort. I also compiled knetworkmanger. To arrange all my network stuf from inside kde. I must say it works great. I could connect to my WPA2 network with 2 clicks.

So far so good. Lets hope it stays that way.