stanigator's questions

I don't feel like upgrading my hard drive or splitting off a partition on my existing hard drive. That said, it has a SD card slot, and I'm thinking of installing onto that partition and boot off of it instead whenever I feel like it. Since I have a desktop tower, the notebook computer is mainly served as a machine in which I edit software code being hosted online somewhere.

Would a 128 GB SD card work well enough from your experiences or stories you've heard? What about booting from the SD card? I've searched on Google and saw that the speed may be slower than even the slower magnetic HDDs.

I have trouble finding the package for this software. I built and installed from the packages found here, but it's still not working properly with rvm and gem (log is located here). How would you suggest finding a package for this to work properly?

stanley@ubuntu:~/Github/webdev_class/ruby$ sudo apt-cache search ^openssl
[sudo] password for stanley: 
openssl-blacklist - Blacklists for  OpenSSL RSA keys and tools
openssl-blacklist-extra - Non-default blacklists of OpenSSL RSA keys
libengine-pkcs11-openssl - OpenSSL engine for PKCS#11 modules
libxmlsec1-openssl - Openssl engine for the XML security library
openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools

Here is the printout after trying dpkg -l | grep openssl.

stanley@ubuntu:~/Github/webdev_class/ruby$ dpkg -l | grep openssl
ii  openssl                                1.0.0e-2ubuntu4.5                       Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools
ii  python-openssl                         0.12-1ubuntu1                           Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library