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Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: Sabayon Linux

I tried Sabayon for a month or so and found no positive effects running Sabayon over vanilla Gentoo. It also feels like it takes longer to install than a Stage3 + KDE from GRP even though it really doesn't. Sabayon also demands 12GB of harddrive space for the installer to run, no matter how much of the crap it wants to install you deselect.

The installer is user-friendly and more "shiny" than installing Gentoo I must agree, which I am sure attracts some new Linux users, and the fact that you can install things like Nexuiz and Battle for Wesnoth directly from the DVD most likely helps with impressing people that have just come over from windows.

That said it is easy to install which is most likely a plus if you have no idea what you're doing, and it does allow one to use portage which is one of the best package management systems out there. Most likely if a beginner user that uses Sabayon takes a real interest in learning and becoming a more advanced user he/she will delve deeper into the things inherited from Gentoo and step away from the bulk... and eventually do his/her second Linux install as pure Gentoo.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Sabayon Linux

Meh... I'd been kind of hoping that Sabayon would be a bit like a bloatier Arch, using binary packages and Portage for a ports system.

(There was one distro, Onebase, that looked sort of like that... It's dead now though. As far as I can tell all the other source-based distros are purely source-based.)