Not everyone may celebrates Thanksgiving, but I am one that does. Each year I get to sit down with family and eat a wonderful meal and watch some good old American Football. This year will be a quiet Thanksgiving for me as family is spread out.
So what am I thankful for? I am thankful for another wonderful year working with Sabayon Linux. I am glad to have met the new people in the past year and that the bonds continue to grow with those that have been there even longer. I’ve seen some great changes in the past year that are making this distro better and better.
I thought I would take a look at different distros out there and try some out to see what others were doing. I soon realized at how awesome Sabayon Linux really is for a top choice and how lazy we can get when things don’t work out of the box. We got all those distros out there and they all have their pros and cons. I learned that Sabayon definitely has a lot of pros to offer to people immediately. I see people commenting on how they want to graduate from Ubuntu to a higher level distro. I think that is great that they see us as a challenge to learn more, but that doesn’t make Ubuntu bad in any way. I have Ubuntu installed on a partition that I keep to see what the competition is doing. It works great on my end and that is what it all boils down to. If it works for you, great, it’s all good. Anyway, we got a distro that is getting a lot of attention. I usually have my twitter and identi accounts open and see people posting to #Sabayon a lot. I holler out to them if they have questions. It’s just 2 more ways to reach out to people and spread the word. I was invited to even join up with a !Sabayon group after I answered a question that was posted wondering what our boot up song was.
It helps to have a strong community with great people. Our community stretches world wide. I encourage everyone that is interested to get involved with the community of your choice. You will run into the “tards”, ignore them and move on as their is a lot great people out there to connect with.
Hopefully everyone is noticing an improvement with speeds in entropy. Fabio talked with the various mirrors to get help with the rsync. We are always looking for mirrors, so if you or know of someone that can help with mirroring, let us know. It’s really simple, just setup your rsync and let us know so we can implement you in. One part of the world we are really struggling with is China. China really needs a local mirror as entropy is just so slow for downloads. Questions or concerns on mirrors, please get a hold of us. Jump on our Mail List, irc freenode #sabayon-dev or email us.
Please bare with the OpenOffice ordeal, it should be nearly worked out. Your not the only one that is frustrated in having to redownload the bugger.
Mitch aka dontpanic took off to be with family this week for Thanksgiving. He last reported and acknowledged the issues found on beta1 of core-cd. Hopefully we see a beta 2 very shortly and that should also become the final version. I’m just as anxious as you are to install it.
Last time I saw Fabio, he was collecting and nailing the bugs found in beta 1 of 5.1 mini-dvds. I suspect a beta 2 of that will be out shortly and unless something is really a muck, I am expecting that to become final also. Just don’t hold me to it, ehehe. Remember we are always looking for man power to help out.
Oh before I forget. Please please please, always update you config files with equo conf update. 90% of the time it is safe to select -5, but please look at the config files that it wants to update. In the last updates, /etc/conf.d/xdm was one of the config files that wanted to be updated. A lot of people hit -5 and when they rebooted, got something they never imagined. XDM controls your login and it always defaults to xdm in the config file. So your gdm or kdm will no long come up. Easy fix tho, edit the /etc/conf.d/xdm file and look for DISPLAYMANAGER=”xdm” and change the xdm to the one you are using. Issue the command /etc/init.d/xdm restart and you will have your desktop back. Over time you will get to learn which config files are important to watch out for. Just get into the habit of looking at what equo conf update is telling you. The package manager is vital, it will bite you every time if you don’t pay attention to it. I can’t stress knowing the package manager enough. It is the most and top priority to learn.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving to all those that are celebrating it.
The Sabayon