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    Why is Sabayon good ? Compared to Mandriva/SLED ?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by wearetheborg, Dec 30, 2006.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    I saw a couple of posts here on Sabayon.
    It seems it has good hardware support.

    Other than that, how does it compare to debian/Mandriva/SLED in terms of
    1)Available packages.
    2)Ease of upgrading/installing packages.
    3)Configuration.
    4)Dependency hell.

    Also, are the packages the same as for gentoo ? If so, does Sabayon have any of the advantages of gentoo ?
    Is it suitable for an antique system (500Mhz cpu, 128mb ram) ?

    Here is a review of Sabayon
    http://techgage.com/article/sabayon_linux_32/1
     
    wearetheborg, Dec 30, 2006
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    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    The only difference between Sabayon and Gentoo is the fact that the system you install of the disk is pre-compiled, you don't have to compile from source to install the initial programs. However, after install, it's just like Gentoo. Installing GCC took over an hour on my machine.
     
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    I currently run Sabayon 3.2 on my system. Its a very nice distro. It has all the same advantages of Gentoo but it doesnt take as long to install, plus that install is much simpler.
     
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    So how is gentoo for Ease of upgrading/installing packages ?
     
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    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    Almost as easy as apt-get. you just "emerge [package name]". I didn't like the whole compiling from source thing. Wasnt worth an extra 30 minutes to install to reduce load up time by a fraction of a second.
     
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    So when you do "emerge xyz" does it compile xyz from scratch ?
    Also, how many packages does gentoo have access to ?
    Debian has like 16k available packages
     
    wearetheborg, Dec 31, 2006
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    Dam thats a lot.
    Any idea how many packages mandriva has ?

    Why would you recommend Sabayon over debian ?
     
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    I wouldn't, personally.

    gentoo and derivatives (which includes Sabayon) are much more "bleeding edge," whereas Debian is specifically designed to be extremely stable, which is part of the reason that they have such infrequent releases.

    I just think that gentoo is too much of a hobby OS, since you have to compile everything from source to install anything, which just seems like a huge pain in the butt. I personally use Ubuntu 6.10, which serves me well.
     
    BigV, Jan 1, 2007
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    Yeah, I liked it, I really did. But when it came to useability, Ubuntu beat it. I didnt want to spend 15 minutes downloading OpenOffice, and then 2 hours installing it.
     
    Lysander, Jan 1, 2007
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