Sabayon a fresh start
by tmac on Jan.16, 2010, under Linux
So last night a friend and I spent our time trying to get Linux installed onto my laptop. I don’t know if any of you had seen on Twitter but I was having some problems getting Ubuntu installed.
I ended up settling for what he uses which is Sabayon. I had used this briefly a few years ago just as I was getting into the whole Linux scene, but at that time I really didn’t understand what Linux was.
At first glance Sabayon was brilliant. It looks smart and it runs with Gnome so what I have learnt with Ubuntu hadn’t been wasted. The problem came when I tried to get my wireless working. I was looking everywhere on the Internet for help with getting it installed and all I could find was the bloody Ubuntu forums, they were being too helpful for once. In the end I just followed one hoping that it would work. I used ndiswrapper again with the Win2k version of the driver and after some tinkering about I can now get the laptop running through my wireless. The only problem I have now is that I have to run sudo modprobe ndiswapper at boot through the terminal. I have added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules but it is still not running at boot. There must be something slightly different I have to do with Sabayon which I cannot figure out yet but no worries I don’t have Windows to keep me busy now.
The aim now is to get myself to grips with their package manager. I am loving my new found love for Linux, probably because when people see it they stop to say “hey what’s that” and it also stops my girlfriend trying to get on my PC/Laptop too 
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January 17th, 2010 on 12:09 pm
I’m still usign Ubuntu 9.10 for most stuff, can’t get games working properly, other than that the only issue is that my mic doesn’t seem to work on there, would like to sort that out at least, but I have Windows 7 to fall back on if I do want to game or record something!
January 26th, 2010 on 3:00 am
uninstalled windows and installed ubuntu. Was having problems installing Ubuntu 9.10, so i installed 8 den upgraded. Works fine now =]
March 12th, 2010 on 9:48 am
Hi welcome to life man!! Loving Linux for years!!
My girlfriend just loves it too…