Back to Linux!
At the end of the last week i did some “kamikaze” (software) tests with my Windows and, of course, it went wrong 
I lost both Vista and Win7 so, i had to find my Sabayon CD to recover grub again.
As soon as i logged in i saw over 500 updates 
but loosing 2 operating systems was not enough 
Checking Sabayon website i found a new version, 4.2.
I decided to download the ISO before starting to update 500 packages because i was almost sure something will go wrong.
And it went!
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Sabayon: after 62 updates…
Last 3 weeks i didn’t have too much time to play with Linux so, i didn’t even boot in Sabayon. A few days ago i finally decided to do it and make the touchscreen to work. The first thing i saw: 62 new updates.
Well, update then
Not a good idea. In fact, when i play with distro’s like Sabayon which include the latest packages i always expect something to go wrong after a big update. This time wasn’t different.
Next step, Wacom driver (tutorial will come soon). Super, working from first attempt.
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Sabayon: scrolling && compiz.
This is not a Sabayon related problem. Probably is happening no matter what distribution is used but I will try with an Ubuntu Live just to be sure.
While looking for tutorials, tips, tricks to setup the Wacom digitizer i have to scroll a lot and every time i have huge problems. Because of scrolling, the entire system is freezing for a few seconds. This happens almost every minute and is pissing me off, really.
Watching the system load with top, i saw the Firefox and X using 100% of the CPU. After searching with google and checking tons of bug reports Read the rest of this entry »
Sabayon: little success
Not much success yesterday.
I found a nice wallpaper and successfully configured Conky:
- CPU Usage
- Processes
- RAM, Swap, HDD IO
- HDD space
- Wireless
- Battery/AC
- Sabayon world
- Weather
- Gmail
Wallpaper + Conky
I had a problem with Conky. Every time it was started manually everything was ok but when was started at login time by gnome session was always on top.
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