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Archive for June 15th, 2006

LISP – the first contact

Posted by Michael on June 15, 2006

While moving from MS Win to Gentoo Linux I came across a lot of software, hence also all those LISP libraries and tools installable on Gentoo … and I was fascinated. Years ago I went through several tries to get an understanding of LISP but without success.

THIS time I was infected … by the LISP virus.

And I'm going to write about my experience, problems, frustrations and success during this "journey". 

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Switching OS to Gentoo Linux

Posted by Michael on June 15, 2006

About a month and a half ago I decided to switch all my workstation and server OS from MS Windows to Linux – although I earn my living with development for windows (Delphi, C++ etc).
I chose Gentoo as this distribution can be taylored as needed – and I had used it already few years ago. Nevertheless I was a little bit nervous in the beginning and worrying if I could manage the transition without bigger problems.

To make it short: my main development system (dual-boot Gentoo/XP) runs now

  • Gentoo with GCC 4.1.1, xfce4, WindowMaker/GNUstep, Gnome 2.14.1
  • Emacs/SLIME and SBCL, newLISP
  • Eclipse
  • VMware Workstation for development on MS Windows
  • Wine (want to get a few programs run on Linux, Dreamweaver etc)

Another two (older) workstations are for testing stuff and new enviroments.

One server runs Gentoo, Apache2/PHP, PortableAllegroServe, newLISP CMS and serves as a Portage NFS server. Another server runs VMWare Server.

Next step is testing XEN 3.0 and then building a LinuxCluster.

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It got me …

Posted by Michael on June 15, 2006

Finally, it looks like I’m becoming a blogger too …

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