Sabayon reviews on distrowatch and linuxaverage

[Skoo21]

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... #firstlook
http://linuxaverage.wordpress.com/2006/ ... -linux-30/

[wolfden]

To the distrowatch review- a gripe about vi? omg I hate vi, Nano > vi It's a personal preference thing, can't really rag on something like that.

I do agree with the resolution thing of 1024x768, but 5 seconds in xorg.conf solves that.

The length of boot - I can live with it.

It's too bad they didn't emphasize more on aiglx and xgl working right out of the box. People seem very interested in that.


Bottom line is - no distro is perfect. With all the different hardware and users it's impossible to make "the one" distro. Ubuntu is very popular, but yet I can't stand it. PCLinuxOS has excellant hardware detection, but yet it seems to always crap out on me after using it for a bit. Those are just some examples of my personal use.

Sabayon works for me.

[lxnay]

I strongly do not agree with Ladislav on some parts of his review.
Hasn't he anything else than to talk about the absence of a stupid, old and dead text editor?
Is the resolution a problem? There's res= parameter. And you want to know why I didn't use DDC since now? Because of compatibility problems with some buggy OLD monitors.
The length of boot? The distro autoconfigures everything automatically and it is one of the most compatible distro out there, that can even boot on Firewire/USB CD/DVD readers and installed on USB/Firewire drives too. We support DRI from every DRI-capable video card and OpenGL from NVIDIA and ATI. To get both of the worlds working nicely, we have introduced some extra steps.
We support NetworkManager stack (from Project Utopia): there isn't any other distro that supports things like us.
The author wondered why we dropped Gentoo Linux Installer, oh my God. just ask this to the people that have lost their partitions... Bah...

He didn't mention XsistenCe, NoMachine NX support, Gentoo Linux based distro migration (using the Upgrade function), XGL (IIRC), etc...

A poor and superficial review made by a 47-year (IIRC) man. We are the 2nd GNU/Linux generation, let's make things that just work without any political way of thinking.

And for the "mga" stuff. Well, I can't answer, but he had 11 months of time to inform me about his problems. We autoconfigure Matrox video cards if the lspci VGA line contains:

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lspci | grep ' VGA ' | grep -i "Matrox"

So, it sounds very weird to me...

[Skoo21]

I like the distro, and thanks again, for multimedia packages, i haven`t internet at home, and it is very hard to update my packages.
And maybe the reason why distrowatch is wrote about you is that you are popular:24th place...

When will appear the next version?

[wolfden]

yea I just chuckled when I read the part of trying to figure out why you switched to the anaconda. Where has the dude been? Even the people over at Gentoo tell people not to use the gui installer.

You guys did great lxnay - the guy is just not getting the full picture.

[M8tRiX]

That reviewer if you can call he/she that is talking out of his/her ass.

I aggree with what lxnay has said about the review, personally SabayonLinux has been the best experience into linux so far. Don't even have my windows installation anymore, besides i wanted my 100GB back

Cheers Dudes

[pxc]

oh my God. just ask this to the people that have lost their partitions...

This is me, personally thanking you for keeping the Sabayon installer from borking my partition table like Gentoo's livecd installer did. (I did manage to restore my partition table, but I borrowed some of my dad's sysadministration [restoration and backup] tools to do it.)