Sabayon and I - A short story.

[chickaroo]

I must say that Sabayon Linux development has been coming along very nicely through the years. I've been following it since it's conception, and I was even a beta tester before it was even called Sabayon

Some of you may know me for my b!tching of all the bugs through the years, and some of you may remember how I used to hang out in #sabayon and help people before it moved to freenode.

In short, I've been a Gentoo user since 2004. My original attraction to Gentoo was the idea of building things with, a my own two hands, so to speak. As a result, I refused to use anything that I didn't build myself. But I always liked a lot of the stuff Sabayon did, (and thus, borrowed many ideas from it for my own installs)

But, as life goes on, I don't have time to build and maintain a Gentoo install anymore. (it can be a lot of work), so I threw Sabayon 5.2 on my laptop and I am amazed how well it's running out of the box. (and I love Entropy/Equo/Sulfur) It still could use a lot of work, and I could go on and on about bugs, but I won't

Anyways, I finally got rid of my "Gentoo purist" ego. I realize in the end it doesn't matter whether I'm using a *pure* Gentoo install or not. A install as nice as Sabayon would have taken me 3-4 weeks to build, (and probably longer to make it actually functional!)

As a result, I am enjoying Sabayon for what it is - A really nice "out of the box" Gentoo Experience with a lot of extras and a great community, so I thank the Sabayon team for all their hard work so lazy people like me can enjoy it


Edit: Actually, Sabayon has become much more than just a fork of Gentoo. I should give it more credit

[wolfden]

It's all good, pure and unpure even.

[Thev00d00]

Whats up with freenode? Apart from the occasional netsplit

[chickaroo]

Whats up with freenode? Apart from the occasional netsplit

nothing wrong with freenode. all the channels i frequent are on OFTC though, so connecting to freenode for just one or two channels is not really worth it. I was sad to see #sabayon moved from OFTC-->Freenode

:D

It's all good, pure and unpure even.

thanks, it's good to see u again lol. I remember you were like the most active user in the beginning and I guess eventually became part of the dev team. congrats =P

[Thev00d00]

Whats up with freenode? Apart from the occasional netsplit

nothing wrong with freenode. all the channels i frequent are on OFTC though, so connecting to freenode for just one or two channels is not really worth it. I was sad to see #sabayon moved from OFTC-->Freenode

#sabayon, #sabayon-dev, #sabayon-social, plus all the #gentoo-* Missing out man,

[chickaroo]

Whats up with freenode? Apart from the occasional netsplit

nothing wrong with freenode. all the channels i frequent are on OFTC though, so connecting to freenode for just one or two channels is not really worth it. I was sad to see #sabayon moved from OFTC-->Freenode

#sabayon, #sabayon-dev, #sabayon-social, plus all the #gentoo-* Missing out man,

heh, too much drama for me in the #gentoo's

Oh, and I'm not a man. linux chix ftw! rawr

[throdon]

Oh, and I'm not a man. linux chix ftw! rawr

This truly makes me happy!!! Linux chix FTW!!!

[chickaroo]

OH, and I forgot to mention that I was the very first person to ever file a bug report with Sabayon (bug #1 on the bugzilla) god was I such a ditz back then though. reading your own writing from 4 years ago is weird.