[ale] Sabayon

[Jeff Hubbs]

The similar package manager ("Portage") in Gentoo Linux has definitely 
been one of its big draws for over a decade.

On 4/21/12 2:31 PM, arxaaron wrote:
> The current issue of Linux Format featured Sabayon in their
> Distrowatch segment. was very complimentary of
> Sabayon.  They liked that it come up in XFCE but
> also supported Cinnamon (the customized Gnome 3
> from the Mint distro) and Razor QT as optional
> packages.
>
> They are a plus on the "Ports" package manager as well.
>
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> On 2012/04/21, at 10:22 , Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 13:25 -0400, Scott Denlinger wrote:
>>> I agree with you about Debian, but do you have a particular NEED to
>>> run Sid on
>>> your desktop? Surely you know that's Debian's unstable version? Why
>>> not try
>>> testing? I'm running that, and it effectively is as reliable as the
>>> "stable"
>>> distribution, and gets you more up to date software than the stable
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> Scott Denlinger
>> Scott,
>>
>> Yes, I do know that.  I run Sid because that is what the Ubers do. At
>> least that is what I thought in 2000.  Sure it breaks, but it also
>> gets
>> fixed quicker then testing.  Nobody cares if testing breaks ;)
>>
>> My interest in Sabayon is this:  The Ports package system rocks, and
>> it
>> rocks, and it also rocks.  Though, it IS nice, if you go to
>> Sourceforge
>> and find a cool project, they almost always have two packages,
>> source gz
>> and .deb.
>>
>> I do not want Ubuntu.  I hate Unity. While it (Ubuntu) works (mostly)
>> you are out of luck if something you want does not work because the
>> project decided to take an unsupported tweak or non-upstream adopted
>> "fix".  No such issue with Debian.  And if you run Sid, you are always
>> head of Ubuntu.
>>
>> I guess after 12 years, you can just get that itch where you forget
>> about the one who brought you to the dance.
>>
>> Perhaps Linux users are not meant to be single distro users.  I mean
>> it
>> might not even be natural?
>>
>> I considered FreeBSD, but I think they suck as a desktop (because of
>> the
>> lack of current drivers for desktop things).  OpenSolaris, Ilumos and
>> family look real, real interesting, but I think not as a desktop,
>> but as
>> a testbed (can anybody say ZFS, that is where all that development is
>> happing at, and it is NOT being put back into solaris, as well as some
>> really cool cloud things in a few opensolaris distros)
>>
>> Anyway, just a few things I have been pondering.
>> 	
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:50:08AM -0400, Chesser.Damon wrote:
>>>> Running Debian Sid for a desktop.  Getting tired (after 10+ years)
>>>> of
>>>> small breakages rotating through my desktop.  Been thinking about
>>>> Sabayon.  Not trying to start a religious war here (we all know
>>>> Debian
>>>> is the one true Linux way), but does anybody have experience with
>>>> this
>>>> distro?
>>> _______________________________________________
>> -- 
>> Damon
>> damon at damtek.com
>>
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