Stability is overrated
October 10, 2006 at 00:18 by Mike McQuaid
I decided to make the perhaps rather insane choice to move to the unstable tree for my desktop, using Gentoo Linux.
This basically means that as soon as a package is added to the tree, I’ll update to it, bringing the potential for lots of problems.
However, with a community-focused distro like Gentoo, this will just mean that I file bugs and things get fixed more quickly for other people.
It’s a nice place to be in now that I can debug Python, Bash, C, C++ and Java to various degrees, meaning I feel a lot more useful when filing bug reports than I did a few years ago.
I’ve decided to lay off doing the same to my server or laptop, as those are the two systems that I rely on, the server to host this very site, and the laptop to do all my university work on.
Speaking of which, I need to implement a 3D render of a teapot (the Utah teapot, to be precise) using a 2D drawing engine for Friday, purely from first principles, which is fun. Lots of 4×4 matrix multiplication going on. Thankfully, we’ve been allowed to use SDL, which means I’ll have some nice transferable skills going on from this, as I’ve also decided to use/learn C++ for this practical.
Had to give my Honours Project’s first presentation today, which went well.
Bed calls, gonna try and get working for 9am tomorrow.
Night!
