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So I got my main computer running FreeBSD again. Except I'm using KDE for the desktop environment, instead of icewm. It has been a few years since I gave KDE a fair trial, and after compiling it a couple of days ago. I must say I am blown away by how awesome it is.

It might turn out that I get sick of it and go back to icewm, but so far so good.

Took me a while to get this FreeBSD box up and running. A long while. I had to acquire a second SSD for it, and then a compatible graphics card. So plucking up the courage to pay for those items took me about 6 months. Various other things got in my way too.

But now, the machine is up and running and I haven't booted into Windows 7 since. Not that I won't do again. I love computers, and pretty much like to use all OS I can get my hands on. Diversity is important. I've never owned a MAC however as I cannot afford one. I do have an DEC AlphaStation 255, but that's another story.

Anyway, I'm rambling.

The title of this post is about my long struggle to get my evolutionary art system up and running again. Not that I couldn't have gotten it going in a day if I had really wanted to, it just seems to have taken forever to get to the point where I was motivated enough and had the environment setup (i.e the FreeBSD box), to get going.

Well I dusted off the code tonight, and it compiled with a couple of modifications to account for some library changes. The next step is to start evolving images again, and also to relearn my codebase so I can continue advancing the code in new directions. All this inevitably is going to take another 6 months for no real reason, I feel. I'll get there eventually, I suppose :)