Monkeydust.net

After first seeing it mentioned in irc last night, i took a look at former gentoo dev, kloeri’s current project called Exherbo which seems very much to be Gentoo 2.0. So far its got a number of former Gentoo dev’s onboard, including Ciaranm, who, regardless of his sometimes lacking people skills, *is* a very competent programmer. It seems their big aim is creating a gentoo-esque distro thats been built with all the experience available from working on Gentoo for years coupled with a desire to build a forward looking distro that shuns the massive amount of legacy code that other linux distros have picked up over the years.

Surprisigly though, what would appear to have been a low-key announcement in kloeris blog, has somehow been picked up by both slashdot and more surprisingly, TheRegister. While Slashdot takes the usual fairly negative view which it seems to have towards anything even *vaguely* linked to Gentoo. It was nice to read the Reg piece though and not see a totally negative or sarcastic article, they almost sound positive about exherbo!

I have to say im intrigued at the very least and am interested to see where this goes, especially as im a quiet supporter of Paludis (note to anyone reading this, im supporter not a fanboy! ), and have liked how it has forced portage to actually document how everything works via the EAPI’s, which makes it easier to figure out if a certain behaviour is a bug or actually a feature!

While ive no intention to actually try and install Exherbo at this point (as im just a mere user!), i do intend to watch and see what it grows into, and whether it can fulfil its rather lofty aims.

So im making progress in getting this site working, although most of my tinkering has been behind the scenes lately, but i now have subversion and trac working (for anyone who cares trac is running on http://dev.monkeydust.net/trac) although i did hit some snags getting trac running in the root directory of dev.monkeydust.net so for now its running in /trac, perhaps il get round to taking another look at some point. Of course it doesnt matter much at the minute as i currently dont have anything to host there!

With any luck il have some more time to actually devote to learning python and i might even make a start on one of the many program ideas ive got bouncing in my head, so far im trying to get my head around the layman source code as id like to try and make it work with paludis (while playman works, its not as pretty as layman and wont remove repos for you), my other idea is a basic pygtk front end to tpb (thinkpad buttons) to make it a bit easier to control what button does what.

If anyone has any ideas though im open to other suggestions for useful (basic) tools, anything that will force me to learn more python is good