My One Question ~ Simple, though important

[phantomreaper]

What does Sabayon Linux have that I want or that makes it stand out from the rest other than a snazzy background? Or what does it have that Gentoo doesnt have?

[barcode_linux]

What does Sabayon Linux have that I want or that makes it stand out from the rest other than a snazzy background?

Snazzy background? cvill64 will be pleased!
Seriously, What makes it stand out is the fact that it is a complete, ready to use fully-featured Gentoo system that won't take you days/weeks to compile. Everything is ready to go. But as far as what you want individually, I can't answer that.

Or what does it have that Gentoo doesnt have?

Well, currently, nothing. Sabayon IS gentoo. There is nothing in Sabayon that is not in the Gentoo portage tree. Although, lxnay is working on the Anaconda installer for a later release.

Hope this answers your question.

barc

[phantomreaper]

Not really, no

Can I have a reason why its different to other distros other than the name and theme?

Also I am a gamer, how would this appeal to me. Also I have Gentoo 2006.0 LiveDVD sitting in my bag right beside my feet which installs perfectly and doesnt need to compile its self!

[cvill64]

We have a "just works, just rocks" attitude, also, I think we're a little bit more friendly than certain gentoo devs

But other than that, the point is, we've compiled the who gentoo system to be fully multimedia compatible, all you have to do is boot with "xgl" and you have xgl/compiz, its all compiled for you saving you a lot of time, etc etc.

If you are a gentoo expert, and want to have _everything_ your way, then I would suggest installing on your own because you will be installing lxnay's choosen settings and hacked files.

Or you can install this, with everything that work, and just recompile, but this is completely due to your gentoo skills.

[phantomreaper]

I still dont understand! *frustrated sigh* Why did this Linux get created? See Ubuntu was a user friendly distro, Koraao (or however you spell it) does all the XGL stuff, SUSE is for (Still dont know). I just want a simple what is the whole reason for Sabayon Linux existing whats its motto whats your mission statement? I need details

[barcode_linux]

This distro (flavor) of linux was created to use the power and stabilty of Gentoo, but in a preconfigured and fully functional enviroment. Gentoo users can build a system from the ground up with all of the optimizations that can be introduced for a given set of hardware. What Sabayon does is harness the power of Gentoo for you, meaning that you don't have to spend days/weeks configuring and compiling a baseline Gentoo install...Sabayon does this for you.

Sabayon has the user friendly approach of Ubuntu, the eye-candy of Kororra (actually, we had Xgl before them) , and the flexibility of Gentoo...all in one easy to use distro.

As far as the motto, cvill64 already explained this. We have a "just works" approach to Gentoo and Linux. Sabayon is made to fit 99% of the hardware out there so that everything that you have in/attached to your machine "just works".

barc

[phantomreaper]

thank you

[lxnay]

I still dont understand! *frustrated sigh* Why did this Linux get created? See Ubuntu was a user friendly distro, Koraao (or however you spell it) does all the XGL stuff, SUSE is for (Still dont know). I just want a simple what is the whole reason for Sabayon Linux existing whats its motto whats your mission statement? I need details

Sabayon, since some time ago called RR4 and RR64 Linux, existsed a lot time before Kororaa. And I think that Kororaa is a rough copy of our distro

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-21 ... ivecd.html

[Goatee]

Sabayon is made to fit 99% of the hardware out there so that everything that you have in/attached to your machine "just works".

Except SLI?
Is there an sli beta tester on the team?

[wegface]

Lets be honest kororaa was never a live cd until xgl came out. It was just a binary installer for gentoo- nothing more. And unless im very much mistaken kororaa had the xgl live cd before rr64-which i might add is no longer available due to gpl moanings from half the linux world. Another difference being sabayon/rr64 is bleeding edge gentoo where as kororaa install is not.
Sabayon is a great distro which does not need to bash other smaller distros. rant over. Peace