On Monday 05 March 2007 23:17, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Wesley Parish wrote: <snip> > > 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.
What I meant, and probably should have made more clear, was that Sabayon, AFAIK, uses AIGLX (IIRC) by default. Though I suspect it's not the only one by now. The word "eyecandy" should have made that clear - Vista's effects have nothing on AIGLX. > > [ ... ] > > > So, who do we know at DSE > > Unfortunately, nobody as far as I know. > > -- > CS -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
