[ale] Sabayon

[Ted W]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Chesser.Damon wrote:
> Hey gang,
>  
> 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 at damtek.com
>  
> LEGAL DISCLAIMER
> The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
> By replying to this e-mail, you consent to SunTrust's monitoring activities of all communication that occurs on SunTrust's systems.
> SunTrust is a federally registered service mark of SunTrust Banks, Inc. Live Solid. Bank Solid. is a service mark of SunTrust Banks, Inc.
> 
> [ST:XCL]
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo


I have been known to install Arch on a laptop from time to time. I like the concept of Arch but I find it's lack of stability disturbing. I have found that they also have some of the best documentation of any distribution around. I was a big Ubuntu guy before the switch to Unity. When they switched over, I tried it a few times and swore them off for good. I still find myself wondering back into an Ubuntu VM every release or two just to see if they've fixed it yet but I've not been impressed.

Most recently, I've switched to using Slackware Linux on my old Thinkpad (the beater laptop). It's definitely not a perfect distro but I've come to really like it over the last few months. I've especially come to enjoy the stability it provides, I've yet to have it crash. Some would say that the package manager's lack of dependency checking is a problem but I've not really found that to be much of a problem as the errors states very clearly what package it's expecting.

To summarize, I'd have to recommend you try out Arch. If it proves to be too much like Debian sid, as far as stability is concerned, then come to the slack side ::evilgrin::
-- 
Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
Registered GNU/Linux user #413569



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20120424/e004f9bf/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 841 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Url : http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20120424/e004f9bf/attachment-0001.bin