On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Wesley Parish wrote: > BTW, are we still in touch with Dick Smith Electronics? I believe our particular contact has since moved on.
> DSE, like any other consumer electronics store, is there to push product, > and the more they can show people of a product's capabilities, the more > people will want to buy. > I saw Sabayon at a friend's place the other day, and I saw Vista the night > it was released. And Sabayon beats Vista hands-down for eye-candy - > working perfectly, I might add. It shows off the qualities of your > standard high-grade graphics card much better than Vista does, IMHO. Sabayon was reviewed in some depth during the current Linux Action Show. While not giving a raspberry, they were not exactly enthusiastic about it. Their comments about Sabayon start about 20 mins into the show. http://www.vgcomputers.net/episodes/LinuxActionShowEP037.ogg Note approx 25.7 Mbytes > So, who do we know at DSE? Nobody, now-a-days AFAIK. > Would they be willing to dedicate a top-end machine to showing off Sabayon? Probably not on account of the fact that DSE is now owned by an international corporate retailer which is doubtless well within the reach of the bone-crushing dinosaur domiciled in the NW of the USoA, and the staff knowledge about it will be so close to zero that it does not matter. > Because, Vista's effects, according to my > friend, are being replicated on the XP by enthusiastic XP hobbyists. > Whereas Sabayon AFAIK, is currently unique amongst the distros and amongst > the desktop OSes. Unique? Broadly speaking, Sabayon bears the same kind of relationship to Gentoo that Ubuntu has to Debian. [ ... ] > So, who do we know at DSE Unfortunately, nobody as far as I know. -- CS
