On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? > No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself > but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to > know. > > Brett. > >
Its a precompiled gentoo system with good support for the latest X frills like AIGLX, Beryl etc. It is installable to the hard drive, you may or may not like the theme, its all orange and black. It is runnable as a live dvd if you want to try it out. Advantages: all the support etc of gentoo. All the flexibility of gentoo. Precompiled for quick install. Lots of apps. Disadvantages: all the flexibility of gentoo. -- Nick Rout LOL! OK - I understand now! I might give it a whirl in May when I get back from holiday. (Two weeks to go!) I want an eyecandy distro for my next home project of a home media server. The box needs to be quiet as it'll be in the lounge. Haven't decided yet if I make that box the media server itself or have it as a front-end connecting to a mediaserver box sitting in the computer room. The main constraint is that "She who must be obeyed's" fashion sense dictates that the lounge box be pretty or else hidden behind the TV so I will need a wireless controller of some sort. I could make one (would need to be rf) but it would be easier to use an existing controller - evan a game one would suffice if it looked good enough. (Wife Constraint again). Wife likes the idea of a Mac-mini for looks and ease (also comes with a wireless controller) but the inbuilt software only plays proprietary media. No RAID either so this could only be a front end. VLC (runs on almost any OS and plays almost anything) is not pretty but works well. MediaPortal is pretty for an O/S solution but only works on MS-Windows OS's. :-( Works with almost any form of RF controller though, including game ones. Tversity requires an additional front-end to be useful and appears to be optimised for embedded front-end systems. The Unreal Server is somewhat limited in abilities. Firefly is a bit too immature as yet. Anyone else got some options/ideas? Brett.
