[dundee] gooey boy gets bashed

[Paul Lancaster]

I noticed one of the Linux magazines has Sabayon on the cover DVD.  May 
save someone a download. I didnt check the article accompanying it.


gordon dunlop wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>     
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