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

[Jim March]

Ummm...huh?

Sabayon is a complete distro forked off of Gentoo...not an application...

Jim

On 2/20/07, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>
> 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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