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Review of New Sabayon, "a customized distribution spin based on Gentoo"

  • Subject: Review of New Sabayon, "a customized distribution spin based on Gentoo"
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:13:14 +0100
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Quick Look at Sabayon 6 (GNOME)

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| A bit more than a year ago I had a look at the LXDE and Xfce spins of Sabayon 
| 5.3 and came away quite unimpressed as they even refused to install on my low 
| end hardware, but to be fair both these editions are still experimental and 
| the advice is to use the more mature main GNOME and KDE editions.
| So today, with number 6 out, I'll finally write about those, and without 
| hardware restrictions because I do not expect them to perform with less than 
| 512 MB RAM. Some distributions still manage to do so, but Sabayon is known to 
| be on the heavy side, and it isn't a problem on this Acer Aspire 5551 with 
| 4GB.
| 
| Sabayon is a customized distribution spin based on Gentoo, for those who don't 
| fancy doing the whole compile and configure from absolute scratch. That's also 
| already where the problem lies for me. What's the point of wanting to use a 
| distribution whose strength it is apparently that everything is custom 
| compiled for the machine it is on, when you then use a pre-compiled version of 
| it done by somebody else on their machines. Why not just use any other binary 
| distribution or ArchLinux as a happy medium, which does provide ready made 
| packages but is both faster and just as configurable, with the option of 
| compiling extra packages that you want to add to the small base should you be 
| so inclined, or just go with what's available in the repository. Anyway, the 
| choice is yours.
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http://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/2011/08/quick-look-at-sabayon-6.html
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