Nophix Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Anyone use it? I've got a distro on download, but I'm curious to what others experiences are. Noph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 I played with the liveCD, it was pretty neat... not really sure if I need all those bells and whistels, but its pretty! 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1u Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Anyone use it? I've got a distro on download, but I'm curious to what others experiences are. Noph Here man check out these reviews - http://techgage.com/article/sabayon_linux_32 http://www.linuxtechdaily.com/2007/02/review-sabayon-linux/ Hopefully they help you. I have not personally used it sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garda Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I've used one of the very first LiveCDs. From what I can remember, it was really unstable and buggy, but then again, it was one of their first releases. A really awesome thing is that it has video drivers and all of the other stuff that you want out of the box, instead of having to mess around with all of that other stuff afterward. The 3D desktop is also available out of the box. It's basically a polished version of Gentoo that removes alot of the stuff that could make Gentoo unattractive to use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I couldn't ever get it to install. I get 90% done, all files installed, and then when it goes through the configuration, it errors our with about 30 lines of errors. I had no way to save the messages othe rthan to write them down, so I just gave up after three tries. I will give it a try again soon and see if maybe I can get it to work. The screen shots make it look really nice, but then again, GUI is only part of the equation. If it can't stay up and running, it's not work my time to play with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nophix Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 I DL'd the 3.4e live DVD and it seems ok on my desktop. It's a little buggy on my laptop though. I'll try installing it and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsncorrosion Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I used it a while ago, WiFi did not work on my Acer 5050 laptop and neither did the touch pad, They said a fix was coming. I tried it about 3 months ago. It is a good distro with good desktop support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nophix Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 It worked ok with WiFi and the touchpad on my Acer 3680. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsncorrosion Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Hmmm probably because of the difference in drivers, anyway should have been updated by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twocs Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Sabayon is quite nice. But I deleted it, because it can't support static IPs without some effort. I need an OS that I can use without a hassle, and at my university we use a lot of static IPs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nophix Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 For what I am doing the static IP problem isn't much of a problem. Actually, I haven't even tried it yet. My laptop stays dynamic anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Is it not trying to be to gentoo what ubuntu is to debian? Which seems kinda pointless considering that gentoo is supposed to be tweaked to hell and back in order to increase the speed. I tried it myself but it just seemed in complete, if you want a linux os that is geared towards newbies stick to ubuntu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nophix Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 I run Slack on my other machines that are using Linux, but I like the Beryl desktop and figured I'd give Sabayon a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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