So, I did some Gentoo Linux updates on my two workstations, my laptop and amd64 desktop, within the past week.  Some of the results were far from stellar:

I also fought with WM decisions, as WindowMaker 0.8x was aging, and having some depencency problems.  I tried out Xfce for a day, and wasn't all that impressed, overall.  Aside from it having keyboard shortcuts for everything under the sun and looking kinda spiffy, I don't think I'm ready for a WM that tries to be a desktop environment.  There were tons of things I would never use, and I ran into all sorts of nasty font problems.  There also lacked the option of turning off the taskbar.  I ended up killing it and then saving my session, but that seemed to break some other functions like setting the desktop background.  I ended up going through a painful upgrade to WindowMaker 0.9x.  It's still lightweight, but has this really annoying alt+tab panel which I can't figure out how to turn off.  It steals focus!  I'll live ...

Oh, yeah.  I'm thinking of getting an overkill network card for my Linux-based router here.  I currently have three packet-forwarding devices (NetScreen, Linksys, Linux box) on the same big fat L2 link, and would eventually like to give each of these devices their own link.  Only problem is that I don't know if the motherboard in this eMachines 333id actually supports PCI 2.2.  It only has 2x PCI slots anyway ... which are both in use (hence the need for a combo card).  I might want to look around for sales, cause that card is like 5x the value of the PC I'm putting it in.

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