[Tfug] Gentoo and Sabayon...*maybe* what I need?

[erich]

FWIW
     I have:

sage ~ # emerge -s sabayon
Searching...  
[ Results for search key : sabayon ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
 
*  app-admin/sabayon [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 2.12.4
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 559 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/
      Description:   Tool to maintain user profiles in a GNOME desktop
      License:       GPL-2

This is with:

sage ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.16.19 alpha)

   It's masked on this particular machine probably because I have KDE
installed,
and that's prone to mask out Gnome things.
  
                                                                         
Erich


Jim March wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Fedora Core 6 is just fine for ME but I don't see trying to support it for
>newbie users.  Auto-updates sometimes do stupid things that I can fix, but
>would leave anybody not ready for CLI just stuck.
>
>So.
>
>I've done a bit of reading on Sabayon.  It's a KDE-only critter based
>heavily on a Gentoo base - fortunately a stable one at that.  It aims for a
>fairly high level of eye candy where possible, and is reputed to have good
>video auto-detect systems.
>
>They are claiming 100% compatibility with the Gentoo package management
>system (portege) and promise no dependency hell on installation.
>
>Being based in Europe, they've had less problems putting MP3/DVD/DIVX and
>other codecs straight into the core.  In my mind that's a plus.
>
>I checked Gentoo's package database and randomly checked to see if things
>were up-to-date.  They mostly are - OpenOffice is at 2.1, Firefox at 2.0.0.1,
>Gimp is up to date, Wine was down a couple of revs though (they're at 9.29,
>release is at 9.31 which FC6 just updated me to today automatically).  So
>clearly FC6 is further along by a bit in some ways.
>
>Sabayon is at 3.26 right now and is promising a new version at 3.3 around
>the first week of next month.  They also claim a history of clean updates
>from one version to another, seem committed to stability...hrm.  They also
>seem to be less of a dramatic fork off their root than Ubuntu is off
>Debian...it's really Gentoo just cleaned up some.
>
>Anybody have experience with either Sabayon, or at a minimum Gentoo once
>it's up and running?
>
>Yes, I *know* it's not .deb compatible.  Sigh.  But then again, if you load
>real Debian packages into Ubuntu you can sometimes hose things good.
>Sabayon on the other hand is committed to full Gentoo package compatibility.
>
>It would mean jumping from Gnome to KDE personally, but...I've pretty much
>figured out I'll have to eventually.  KDE's planned direction on 4.0 (alpha
>verging on beta right now) looks pretty damn good.
>
>Anybody know more about this stuff, esp. any nasty traps?
>
>Jim
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