Comments on: Review: Sabayon Linux

By: SpeedRacerM

SpeedRacerM — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:29:38 +0000

For those of you that may still check these postings, Sabayon 3.4F is out now and is amazing and much more stable. Package integration looks more functional and seemless and again you’ve got options thereof. Looks like Beryl has been traded for CompBiz but has the exact same effects just a new settings manager look. It runs soothly over the last week I’ve had it. And I cannot complain at all about the eye candy. I’m running a GForceFX5900XT and the cube runs smooth as glass and very quick. As said before, after you get used to the cube you’ll find it hard to go back to the XP desktop or other multi-desktop linux desktop environments. As far as multimedia goes, its awesome to hae the cube when you’re watching a movie or surfing. You just flip the cube to another set of windows and you’re totally able to multi-task a new set of operations. This distro is very very nice.

By: greywolf7

greywolf7 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:08:24 +0000

Sabayon has its flaws yes but so does any other distro , what i love about this os is that if realy realy wnat to i rebuild the thing and increace its performance quit abit try that with slackware no its not perfect and need a lot of work but they are working adn they do have a mini version that fits on one cd again no distro is perfect , i realy like sabayon though and even spent money on it

By: PD

PD — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:03:43 +0000

Andy ^ “Linux has been desktop ready for years. Its people who haven’t been ready for the Linux desktop.”

Beautiful

I’m currently running ubuntu, my first real excursion into linux, starting allmost a year ago. I love ubuntu (especially with beryl), and i love the linux community itself. I’m running it on my laptop, and im soon to put linux on a desktop, im just deciding on a different distro and i may go with sabayon.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:34:30 +0000

Quote : “Hey But what the Heck Linux people are self-absorbed pompous genius’s,..so much more clever than Gate’s crew”

Hey you want to use Linux, use it ! Dont wanna use it - Don’t. Nobody’s forcing it down your throat.

And as for self absorbed pompous genius’s - No they’re not ! Its Gate’s crew who are ! Linux is Linux, Windows is Windows. Please don’t use Linux thinking of it as a free windows O/S - Its not. Its a different O/S in its own right. The fault doesnt lie with the Linux OS but it lies with you not being able to scale up the learning curve.

Linux has been desktop ready for years. Its people who haven’t been ready for the Linux desktop.

Thanks,

Andy.

By: jahlen

jahlen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:06:18 +0000

mike1: you’ve definitely got a point, though I might disagree with your comment that Linux users are snobbish. Different from Windoze users who seem satisfied with getting what they get, Linux users love to have a system they can work with and make their own — kind of like a dog pissing on a tree to mark his territory. Also, I think many Linux users truly enjoy being a part of mutually supporting community: find a bug, go to a forum, find out how to fix it and pass the info on.

Still there are good many distros that are easily installed, run perfectly out of the box, and have a limited number of packages that make them very functional. But out of this bunch, you’d have separate out those that eventually break after several updates due to some dependency problem. That leaves only a few that I think give WinDoze a run for its money.

Oddly enough, none of these are ranked in the top 10 on Distrowatch. Instead, I see all the “cutting edge” distros that are way too buggy for the novice user (with the exception of Debian, of course).

The point is that there definitely are distros that offer the same level of comfort that Windoze does, though why people are comfortable with that virus magnet, I don’t know. The problem is that they are lost in the shuffle among distros whose selling points are based on image and pointless eye candy.