Well, thank you for asking my imaginary reader. I have actually been in school. Working. Slave labor. To my death. Anyway, I survived, and it's AP week, so of course I have studying and a billion projects to do. Needless to say, I finally found a reason to come back to my blog.

Here's what's changed:

Elive went to crap. I can't get it to work with my graphics card. I have finally given up and deleted the partition. (I then had to recreate my menu.lst by hand... Thank G-d I put GRUB on my flash drive! It really did save me.)

Onto GRUB. GRUB2 that is. Yes, it's time to move onto the new generation of GRUB, along with all the pretty bells and whistles and painfully slow performance. Meh. Half of you out there probably still have Vista on some computer at home, so you have built-in tolerance for losing 99% of performance just so that the thing can look pretty. And look pretty it does. GRUB2 that is. Can you put GRUB2 on your flash drive? Heck, most people can't manage to get it on their computer. If I could write that guide... I'd be a genius. But what do you know? I am an egotistical maniac, so I am working on it.

In the rest of my spare time, I went back to Arch Linux for the 6th time, and finally everything works (except samba, which I'm still fixing). Also, I use a highly customized version of FVWM called FVWM-Crystal. It has a lot of pseudo-transparency and looks really nice. I learned its scripting language by trial and error. It is my first programming experience ever. Yes, thank you very much. Anyway, it looks sick. I'll post some pictures after I finish developing my "recipe," which is how my desktop looks. Between that, GRUB2, and splashy - which generates a splash screen during boot, my computer is very pleasing to the eye - however not so minimalist anymore. I gave up my 15 second boot time for ease of use. Despite the complex look, just about anyone could learn how to use my setup quickly, thanks to a lot of gnome-integration starting with nautilus. I tried other desktop managers such as ROX, but the simplicity of nautilus is just so nice.

Anyway, be just like me (because I'm perfect). In other words, give up on Elive until some more development is done, and then develop yourself! I'll be doing just that and making a very professional looking tutorial for installing GRUB2 to a flash drive. Computers are all different, but hopefully I will be able to make the first comprehensive GRUB2 installation tutorial. I might even learn how to make packages myself. I don't know about RPMs, but I'll likely make a PKGBUILD and a DEB by the end of the school year.

Words of encouragement will definitely speed me up, so send away, my one still imaginary reader.