Remember my quest to the holy “window manager“? I ended it up with FVWM…

Wanting a non intrusive but though useful menu-start-status-pager-…-bar, I first used Xosview to display a nice CPU graph, but I still wanted some info abut network up&down links (and Memory and HD usage as a bonus)…

So let me introduce conky:

Conky is a very light-weight system monitor, you can consider it as a torsmo enhancement: you can do much much more with it. Beautiful graphs, various resource monitoring, mail check, …

And if you use FVWM, you can “swallow” it easily in any button, like I did. Of course, I’ve chosen for a very simple setup, giving me the information if find vital 🙂

If you don’t know “TUX magazine” yet, it is time to download (don’t worry it’s free like in free beer) the last issue (and all previous of course!).

To be short, this mag is the little brother of Linux Journal (LJ), and points mainly at new linux users (while other may find interesting information though).

But if you are a Gnome fan, you might be a bit disappointed… For example, in this issue they explain you how to custom the KDE & Gnome Graphical Interfaces… KDE gets 3-4 pages of attention, while they only explain you how to set a custom background for Gnome (I think my 4 year old nephew can do it on the shot without any background…)

Otherwise, it is a very good online mag! Enjoy…

I’ve been quite busy those last days (weeks)…

So let keep it short:

I was getting bored with those eternity lasting emerge -u sync, stalling for more than 20 minutes between 50 and 54% when updating portage…

After some search in the Gentoo forums, I found this little tutorial, explaining how you can impressively increase portage’s speed using a cdb!

Now it only takes few seconds for calculating dependencies and so on after sync is performed… yeah!