Finally the foldings are into Eclipse. The thing I missed the most. Will write about the other new features too. Had been using Eclipse 3 M8 for some time. Just started M9 using the workspace from M8.
Got my X running at 1024x768. Not that higher resolution was any bad. Just wanted to bring things down to save on memory :) Editing the XF86Config file using nano reminded me of the my initial days with Linux, Slackware to be precise.
Have found a GUI for editing the password yet so I am using passwd in an xterm.
Got xboard (gnuchess) running and Shyam Dai is addicted to it. Was trying to install PySol when I found out that Python was compiled without Tkinter :(.
Updated to Xfce 4.0.5. Not much difference. Well, will spend the next few days adding some games and cleaning up as usual.
Got my gentoo gateway working. The gateway machine also works as a desktop system for my flatemates and me when we don't want to use our laptops. Almost all my flatmates are Windows users so I am trying to make the system as simple as possible.
The best thing to do is install KDE or Gnome. However, I have decided not to do that. Instead I have put Xfce4. Why? Well, I am using a Pentium II with 256 MB and 4GB hard disk as my gateway and common system. I don't want to overload it. Anyway, I don't have a very heavy requirement. Basically browsing, chatting and occassional printing.
For browsing I have installed Firefox and Gaim for instant messaging. I plan to use gqview, Gimp for image viewing and editing. Right now I am installing OpenOffice for occassional word processing.
First issue is trying to avoid logging as each user and trying to run openoffice setup for each user. Sure setup -net does a multi-user setup, however, it still requires each user to run setup once to configure local directory and stuff. This is a hassel. There must be a better way.
Actually, this isn't my biggest problem right now. My biggest problem is a simple gui password changer. Since I am not using KDE or Gnome I don't have a simple password changer for the users. I can't really ask everyone to open a console and use passwd. Tried searching for one but couldn't really find any. Many GUI admin tools but none that does just change password. I mind have to write one using Python and PyGTK :)