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

[Jim March]

In some ways Sabayon (the distro) isn't actually a distro.

What it is, is Gentoo cleaned up.  It's really still Gentoo.  It's nowhere
near as radical a fork off it's parent as, say, Ubuntu is off Debian.

Sabayon is based on stable Gentoo code, and is able to eat all Gentoo
packages.  People are going to both the Sabayon and Gentoo forums for
support.

It's just a couple guys in Italy building a clean system for you.

Nothing wrong with that :).

Jim

On 2/23/07, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>
> Well,
>       I notice that Sabayon, (the Linux distro), has bills to pay so
> let's all open our wallets. What the heck. Let's have another Linux
> distro the more the merrier :-)
>
>                                                                      Erich
>
> Jim March wrote:
>
> >Ummm...yeah, I do definately know what I'm talking about :).
> >
> >http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
> >
> >That's the "about" page for Gentoo.  It's a distro.  It's an OLD distro
> in
> >fact...only thing weird is, you can choose to start with either a Linux
> or
> >FreeBSD base.  It then adds user interface and package management stuff
> on
> >top of either core.
> >
> >It's the core of one of the major "families" the way Red Hat is core to
> the
> >RPM world and Debian is core to DEB.  It's more of a "deep geek" distro
> >needing major configuration, sort of like Slackware.
> >
> >Sabayon is a Gentoo (Linux, not FreeBSD) fork focusing on graphics
> >compatibility and quicker setup, but once built is closer to a good
> working
> >Gentoo state than Ubuntu is to Debian.  Sayabon can always work with
> Gentoo
> >packages, while Ubuntu sometimes pukes on plain .deb stuff meant for
> Debian.
> >
> >http://www.sabayonlinux.org/
> >
> >It's based in Italy so they include Libdvdcss and the like right from the
> >get-go, and they're the official development distro for Beryl.
> >
> >So...I guess nobody's played with it yet?
> >
> >The real "killer app" for me is the ability to demo a 3D desktop on this
> >ancient laptop o' mine...if I can do THAT...oh yeah.  And I've been
> meaning
> >to dive into KDE anyways...
> >
> >At a minimum I'm going to download a DVD ISO and play with it in live
> boot.
> >It it makes my video Beryl-compatible, so long Fedora Core 6, I'll be
> >playing with this next :).
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >On 2/20/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>app-misc/gentoo
> >>      Latest version available: 0.11.55
> >>      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >>      Size of files: 1,362 kB
> >>      Homepage:      http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/
> >>      Description:   A modern GTK+ based filemanager for any WM
> >>      License:       GPL-2
> >>
> >>It looks like Gentoo is "A modern GTK+ based filemanager for any WM",
> >>and not a distribution.
> >>
> >>Are you sure you know what you are talking about?  }:)
> >>
> >>On 2/20/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Ummm...huh?
> >>>
> >>>Sabayon is a complete distro forked off of Gentoo...not an
> >>>
> >>>
> >>application...
> >>
> >>
> >>>Jim
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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