I have used it in the past and have it currently installed. It is a BIG distribution. It comes on a DVD and its installation tops out at about 15 GBs. It is Gentoo but it uses precompiled packages for the most part so you lose the advantage of Gentoo right off. It is slick. It requires a newer, fast computer. I am not sure who its target user base is. Anybody wanting to build packages and optimise their computer would not use Sabayon. They would use Arch, Gentoo or Slackware.
Roy On 6 June 2010 19:07, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:50 AM, FreeLSDmachine > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have heard of this distro called Sabayon which is a so-called "user- >> freindly" version of Gentoo. My questions are: Does it do a lot of >> hand-holding? How much must be configured after the initial install? >> How is the driver support? Does it break a lot? I'd prefer answers >> from people who have had prior experience with this distro, but >> anything goes. Thanks! > > I saw someone install it at an installfest once. To be perfectly > honest (as a Gentoo user), why bother using something Gentoo-based if > it's not Gentoo? I mean, you're just going to loose all your > customisation abilities and what not. You'll end up compiling stuff > that will behave more or less like a typical Debian package will. At > which point you should probably save yourself some time and > electricity by using Debian anyways. Or Red Hat or whatever distro > you like. I just say Debian because I bleed apt-get packages. :P > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > http://www.fsdev.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
