So I’ve decided to make a return to gentoo linux after a bit of a break. I have a laptop I need to replace the hard drive in that will be getting the gentoo treatment, so I thought in the mean time i would run up a VM on my work PC and configure things the way i like them and sync the dotfiles to git.
I’ve installed and used gentoo many times so this wasn’t much in the way of coming to grips with a new distribution. The only anomaly that I hadn’t experienced before was with feh which I use for setting the background image for my desktop. It uses the imlib2 library and it wasn’t compiled with support for JPG images. As usual with gentoo though, adding a USE flag for the application and recompiling fixed the issue and all works well.
I also used genkernel for this VM which is a the lazy way, but it works and isn’t so bad these days on modern hardware.
I would like to make and keep this blog active again so let’s see how we go in the future.