[dundee] gooey boy gets bashed

[Digit (SG)]

 What do you think of this Distro?   Was it straightforward for you?

only on first impressions at the mo.  they've got their act together it
seems.  some lovely options that made me smile and go all giddy with
excitement, dancing feet and silly squeeling noises too!  thats always sure
to be a big possitive sign. :D  i've only booted it once so far of the
livedvd (got clicky finggered on one of the game options), and wasnt too
impressed with the default graphic settings...  screen resolution of 640x480
and desktop desolution some many times larger than that.  was a little more
unfamiliar with how to change them to my liking (ahh, good ol 1600x1200).
if i were fresh out of windowsgatesamaton mode, i'd probably feel a little
lost in noob hell.

Do you like it?

lots of candy.  lots of nice features and advancements brought together.
i'd say so [likes it], so far.


gonna install it in a mo... as long as one of my partitions i have set aside
for such use is big enough.
12GB!  !!?!?!!
that screams to be the footprint of some mega glutton bloatage.

if any of you have yet to venture into the joys of multiboot:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959

very handy if you only have one machine to play about on.  the info in that
thread might just be useful too even if you've already ventured beyond
single operating systems.

after installing mcn toronto and it mussin up my neat boot file... i'm a
little more scared to go clicking on that install to hard drive icon....
think it's safe enough?

couldnt make much more mess anyways surely.  :D




On 14/10/2007, gordon dunlop <gordon at zubenel.freeserve.co.uk> 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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