[dundee] gooey boy gets bashed

[gordon dunlop]

I installed Sabayon a couple of weeks ago , I was talking about it to
Phillip and Hazel at the Abertay Linux Society. Sabayon are trying to
put all the best things from other distros into one package, e.g. the
harddrake disk manager (Mandriva), the Anaconda software installer
(Fedora), the KDE OpenSuSE menu & Portage package manager (Gentoo). It
did require a minimum of 12GB space for installing. What do you think of
this Distro? Do you like it? Was it straightforward for you? The only
problem that I had was when updating using emerge is that it could only
be done a few packages at a time because there were 2 packages (This was
found after all the updating) that had dependency errors that affected
the update process, other than that it was okay. I did like the terminal
output of the updating and compiling process as it showed where the
package was being installed to (personal opinion only), this
distribution is starting to get more and more popular.

Gordon

Digit (SG) wrote:
> i've yet to install it to look around, but i've downloaded both the cd
> (mini) and full dvd versions of sabayon linux which is based on
> gentoo.  i feel i've learned alot just from looking around on their
> website.  they provide more usefull tips and commands to get us noobs
> started than i've seen with any other.  i just hope they keep up this
> educational practice once inside the os (since i'll be installing it
> on a machine that is not connected to the net).  I thought Slackware
> was the king of educators, but the gentoo (sabayon at least) route
> seems to be kind enough to give you rubber arm bands and instead of
> throwing you in the deap end n telling you everything from the
> molecular composition of water to philosophical quips, they point to
> where it is and tell you how to swim in it.
>