My 2 cents here. By coincidence I test installed the same Daily on an atom netbook yesterday (32bits). I had no issues with it. (installed from scratch twice)
@Mitch - MATE iso ships with sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility that is imho superior to gparted. - RE: /etc/init.d/xdm stop.. I guess the command you should use is systemctl restart lightdm Cheers On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Mitch Harder <[email protected] > wrote: > I've been testing the Sabayon Mate 20140115 x86_64 daily. > > I needed to recover my ability to boot Linux after the Windows 8.1 > upgrade on my laptop somehow made all my Linux boot options disappear. > > I made an UEFI install to this laptop, and didn't encounter any > problems except for the lack of gparted. Dual booting in UEFI mode > with Windows 8.1 and Sabayon Mate is working fine. > > I would recommend gparted be added to the Sabayon Mate edition. There > were only two small dependency issues (hfsutils and some other minor > package), so there were no Gnome or KDE dependency bombs. > > I also made an install to one of my Desktop boxes (Dell Optiplex 745). > In particular I wanted to test the new version of btrfs-progs. I had > no issues installing to a partition previously formated for btrfs > (which used to cause problems in an unpatched version of the old > btrfs-progs). > > I only had two minor problems. I may have inadvertently caused both > problems, but I haven't tracked down the causes yet. > > First, the resolution of the installed version was very low. The live > session worked fine in detecting and configuring my i915 intel video > card and monitor. But something didn't work right on the installed > version with respect to monitor resolution. > > Second, I ran into some minor issues trying to restart light_dm. It > wasn't responding to '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. > > But all in all, this Sabayon Mate edition was working well. > > Regards, > Mitch. > >
