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Topic: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I tried Sabayon a couple of years back and it was horribly slow.

Is there anyone using or have used Sabayon recently? And what's your take on it?

I intend to try it out again soon... but am disheartened by the poor English usage in the forums lol

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

i tried it recently but as you said it was painfully slow

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I tried it and think it would be great for the right person, just not my cup of tea. I am a minimalist (why I love #!) and Sabayon gives you the kitchen sink. smile

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

Oddly i did try it a couple of months back and i found it to be quite snappy

This is running on my current #! system which is a vintage sony vaio ultraportable, 1.2 Ghz processor 1.5 GB ram and an intel gfx card

The only thing was whenever i updated using their gui tool it would kill Gnome

I was sort of impressed even though i ended up dropping it after a couple of days

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

Sabayon is Gentoo-based (source-based), so theoretically it can be tweaked for good performance on your specific hardware. In practice however I think most Sabayon users use the binary package manager.

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

There is a Sabayon Core Version available for the minimalist oriented people around.... wink

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I wanted the flexibility of Gentoo without the hassles so I did try Sabayon and didn't get on...I am an avid Arch fan these days....it's a cracking OS. Very very minimalist...you make it what you want smile Similar to #! in a way but far more basic to begin with and all vanilla package releases not customised debian affairs...there is the AUR for custom installs too

Out of Sabayon and #! it would have to be #!....but if you want a little challenge (not hard though!) give Arch a go...

Arch is also a rolling release OS, has been from it's beginnings, that's why I like it so much

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

servingwater wrote:

There is a Sabayon Core Version available for the minimalist oriented people around.... wink

Ah that's interesting. I've never really had a decent go at gentoo and like others have found previous Sabayon's to be clunky and slow, which kind of defeats the purpose of gentoo to begin with.

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

omns wrote:
servingwater wrote:

There is a Sabayon Core Version available for the minimalist oriented people around.... wink

Ah that's interesting. I've never really had a decent go at gentoo and like others have found previous Sabayon's to be clunky and slow, which kind of defeats the purpose of gentoo to begin with.

When I tried it it was still called the "Core" Version but I think from what I've read they have changed that now.
There is "Spin" and "Core" Version now I believe one comes with X and Fluxbox and not much else and the other is an actual "base" system without X.

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I had Sabayon Core installed 2 weeks ago and installation went like any CLI installation OS (Arch or minimal Debian, for example).
Can't say that the result was minimalist, no, and found it clunky and slow, as stated by omns. Also installed the full Gnome iso, with the same conclusions.
But the package manager, Entropy, and it's GUI, Sulfur, were quite interesting.

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I tried the Core (fluxbox) out a few days ago. It was utterly slow, even after setting my own flags and recompiling the whole system. Wifi had to be restarted every 10 mins or so from the command line, it kept dropping and wicd wouldn't run. It comes with about 10,000 redundant package managers and all but 2 are completely broken, 1 runs sloooooooooow, and then of course there's the awesome emerge command.

It was pleasantly minimalist, but broken sad

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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

Been down this road too....Arch is the answer for anyone wanting a minimalist rolling release and vanilla as possible OS...IMHO I might add smile

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  • Registered: 2009-09-13
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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

I think I've just dropped my lust for Sabayon neutral

  • Registered: 2009-02-28
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Re: Ever hop on Sabayon?

Going by the recent experiences of of many of the users in this thread I can see why! big_smile
All I can say when I did as far as I can remember my base install wasn't as bad as it sounds to be these days...
But I only added X and openbox to it and quit the project rather quickly because I was working off of a wifi-connection so I lost patience pretty fast.

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