[ale] Sabayon

[Jim Kinney]

Ah, gentoo. I'm waiting for the analysis looking at power consumed for
compiling everything vs power saved from having a highly optomised system.
How much time must elapse between updates to get a power or time
performance payoff.
Not ragging on Jeff (or gentoo for that matter). I've just been doing a fai
amount of power analysis lately and that struck me as an interesting
question.
On Apr 21, 2012 4:44 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> 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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