Col wrote:
Derek Smithies wrote:
The mainstream products endeavour to minimise admin time required.
That sounds like your out of the box experience.
IMO some inner workings of a Gentoo system are required if you plan to
maintain and keep your system up to date, which you won't get if you
take the easy way of installing it.
Col.
Actually from my experience it is much more than "some". Sabayon is
based on Gentoo unstable. (where Gentoo "stable" might be compared to
Debian unstable) Also there are about 1700 packets installed by default.
Unmerging packages on Gentoo is really not a thing I like doing.
Also as the code base is Gentoo there is no way to only get security
patches. If you want security updates you will have to install all
updates. And then something *will* break after some time.
Don't get me wrong I do think Sabayon is a nice distribution but
certainly not for the normal end-user who wants everything to work *and*
get updates. We use Sabayon on our newest box. We first tried Debian but
Debian stable did not have enough support for that kind of hardware to
work out of the box. Sabayon did.
Robert
