[TAG] Gentoo

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Jimmy O'Regan wrote:

> Jason Creighton wrote:
> 
>> For instance, when I installed Linux for the first time, I was using
>> Slackware. I went through the whole install, rebooting my system,
>> and...it "didn't work". I don't know why. Looking back, I think I must
>> have gone through the menu options in the wrong order or something and
>> gotten my /etc/fstab wrong. Or something. At this point, I knew nothing
>> about Linux and didn't have a clue what the system was telling me.
>>
>> So, I reinstalled the whole system. And it worked.
> 
> 
> Heh. Reminds me of the first piece of software I installed on Linux: 
> crack[1]. I spend three days learning about makefiles, headers, 
> libraries, the basics of C... only to be told afterwards about 'rpm'.

Now that I think of it, a friend of mine did something more insane. He 
was writing a graphical card game ("Lord of the Five Rings", I think?). 
He couldn't figure out the linker, so he wrote his own windowing system 
using DOS interrupt calls. All in one 200k+ C file.