Comments on: Sabayon Linux 3.4 Review – Almost Perfect http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-123794 Ryan Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:40:28 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-123794 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-123466" rel="nofollow">Robfuscate wrote:</a><blockquote>So Sabayon is good, but doesn’t ‘just work’!</blockquote></div> As with any Linux distribution it really depends on what you're trying to do and what hardware you're using. Generally speaking though, I would say that Sabayon is one of the few Linux distributions that require little configuration out-of-the-box. Robfuscate wrote:
So Sabayon is good, but doesn’t ‘just work’!

As with any Linux distribution it really depends on what you’re trying to do and what hardware you’re using. Generally speaking though, I would say that Sabayon is one of the few Linux distributions that require little configuration out-of-the-box.

]]> By: Robfuscate http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-123469 Robfuscate Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:13:13 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-123469 oops. That first line should read 'but NOT greatly disagree'. Oh, and since I'm here - these are the 'basics' for me. Essential Touch Pad / Keyboard works Play DVD movies Write DVDs/CDs Firefox 2 or later Open Office and Spellchecker work Decent PIM / Email Decent File Manager Programs to read *.eml *.pdf *.jpg mp3 player Headphone socket works Nice USB mouse/keyboard work Mount USB Flash drives / External drives on desktop Low battery warning Plug and Play Printer Plug and Play Scanner Manual control for headphone socket works oops. That first line should read ‘but NOT greatly disagree’. Oh, and since I’m here – these are the ‘basics’ for me.

Essential
Touch Pad / Keyboard works
Play DVD movies
Write DVDs/CDs
Firefox 2 or later
Open Office and Spellchecker work
Decent PIM / Email
Decent File Manager
Programs to read *.eml *.pdf *.jpg
mp3 player
Headphone socket works

Nice
USB mouse/keyboard work
Mount USB Flash drives / External drives on desktop
Low battery warning
Plug and Play Printer
Plug and Play Scanner
Manual control for headphone socket works

]]> By: Robfuscate http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-123466 Robfuscate Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:57:11 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-123466 Well, I must disagree with 'just works' - but greatly disagree. As a longtime GatesSlave I've been fiddling with a variety of Linux flavours to find a replacement that will at least run the basics BEFORE the steep learning curve to run other stuff.In fact, I even bought a laptop specifically for the experiment So far tried Ubuntu 7.10; Xandros 4; Debian 4; Open Suse 10.3; Fedora Core 6; PClinuxOS Freespire; Mandriva 2008 & Sabayon. I listed all the things that I felt an OS should perform 'straight out of the box' and then rated all my trials. Mandriva 2008 was my choice until I tried Sabayon . Now, I don't know. The difference for me - remembering we are only talking about basic functions - is that - Sabayon will play licensed DVDs (Mandriva won't. but will play 'cracked' ones) - Mandriva will allow me to use my headphones and mute button - Sabayon won't. So Sabayon is good, but doesn't 'just work'! Well, I must disagree with ‘just works’ – but greatly disagree. As a longtime GatesSlave I’ve been fiddling with a variety of Linux flavours to find a replacement that will at least run the basics BEFORE the steep learning curve to run other stuff.In fact, I even bought a laptop specifically for the experiment So far tried Ubuntu 7.10; Xandros 4; Debian 4; Open Suse 10.3; Fedora Core 6; PClinuxOS Freespire; Mandriva 2008 & Sabayon. I listed all the things that I felt an OS should perform ’straight out of the box’ and then rated all my trials. Mandriva 2008 was my choice until I tried Sabayon . Now, I don’t know. The difference for me – remembering we are only talking about basic functions – is that
- Sabayon will play licensed DVDs (Mandriva won’t. but will play ‘cracked’ ones)
- Mandriva will allow me to use my headphones and mute button – Sabayon won’t.
So Sabayon is good, but doesn’t ‘just work’!

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-119751 Ryan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:15:14 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-119751 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-119678" rel="nofollow">Dean wrote:</a><blockquote>My Nvidia 6600GT card is listed as supported and being able to test out Compiz from the live DVD sounds great. I’ll definitely be trying this out. If all goes well I’ll try installing it into a separate partition so I can run it alongside Ubuntu until I decide which I prefer long term.</blockquote></div> I'm still up in arms as to whether i prefer Ubuntu or Sabayon. Both have their strengths, with Ubuntu's being an outstanding community. Sabayon is a bit ahead in terms of features and compatibility I think though. Dean wrote:
My Nvidia 6600GT card is listed as supported and being able to test out Compiz from the live DVD sounds great. I’ll definitely be trying this out. If all goes well I’ll try installing it into a separate partition so I can run it alongside Ubuntu until I decide which I prefer long term.

I’m still up in arms as to whether i prefer Ubuntu or Sabayon. Both have their strengths, with Ubuntu’s being an outstanding community. Sabayon is a bit ahead in terms of features and compatibility I think though.

]]> By: Dean http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-119678 Dean Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:53:39 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-119678 My Nvidia 6600GT card is listed as supported and being able to test out Compiz from the live DVD sounds great. I'll definitely be trying this out. If all goes well I'll try installing it into a separate partition so I can run it alongside Ubuntu until I decide which I prefer long term. My Nvidia 6600GT card is listed as supported and being able to test out Compiz from the live DVD sounds great. I’ll definitely be trying this out. If all goes well I’ll try installing it into a separate partition so I can run it alongside Ubuntu until I decide which I prefer long term.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-119587 Ryan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:33:05 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-119587 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-119567" rel="nofollow">Lytithwyn Eldohtar wrote:</a><blockquote>My biggest gripe, I guess (besides the ugly [IMO] color scheme) is the NetworkManager system. It barely works. I immediately reverted to the traditional Gentoo network script system (which was VERY easy) and was completely satisfied.</blockquote></div> Glad I'm not the only one that isn't a big fan of the color scheme. And I was just starting to notice that the NetworkManager system isn't all that great. I seem to be getting by with it though. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-119572" rel="nofollow">Mohan wrote:</a><blockquote>Linux distributions have shaped up much nicely it was like this 3 years ago (when I moved over from Fedora to Ubuntu which was back then a brand new distro that was same as Debian but with a brown theme).</blockquote></div> It is pretty crazy how far they have come, but I would like to see more of them start focusing on the smaller details. Instead of adding more new features they should look more to finetuning the existing ones. They should also try and find ways to add a GUI to more configuration options so that users barely have to open the terminal in order to get something done. Lytithwyn Eldohtar wrote:
My biggest gripe, I guess (besides the ugly [IMO] color scheme) is the NetworkManager system. It barely works. I immediately reverted to the traditional Gentoo network script system (which was VERY easy) and was completely satisfied.

Glad I’m not the only one that isn’t a big fan of the color scheme. And I was just starting to notice that the NetworkManager system isn’t all that great. I seem to be getting by with it though.

Mohan wrote:
Linux distributions have shaped up much nicely it was like this 3 years ago (when I moved over from Fedora to Ubuntu which was back then a brand new distro that was same as Debian but with a brown theme).

It is pretty crazy how far they have come, but I would like to see more of them start focusing on the smaller details. Instead of adding more new features they should look more to finetuning the existing ones. They should also try and find ways to add a GUI to more configuration options so that users barely have to open the terminal in order to get something done.

]]> By: Mohan http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-119572 Mohan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:09:40 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-119572 Pretty cool, I played around with Mandrive 2008 on Sunday (would have been sooner but all day Saturday the tracker seemed to be down). It is pretty cool, much better than the Mandrake that I used back in 2000 (of course I knew it would be). I was pleasantly surprised at it, and I even liked it. Linux distributions have shaped up much nicely it was like this 3 years ago (when I moved over from Fedora to Ubuntu which was back then a brand new distro that was same as Debian but with a brown theme). Pretty cool, I played around with Mandrive 2008 on Sunday (would have been sooner but all day Saturday the tracker seemed to be down). It is pretty cool, much better than the Mandrake that I used back in 2000 (of course I knew it would be). I was pleasantly surprised at it, and I even liked it. Linux distributions have shaped up much nicely it was like this 3 years ago (when I moved over from Fedora to Ubuntu which was back then a brand new distro that was same as Debian but with a brown theme).

]]> By: Lytithwyn Eldohtar http://cybernetnews.com/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-119567 Lytithwyn Eldohtar Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:28:02 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/22/sabayon-linux-34-review-almost-perfect/#comment-119567 I actually use Sabayon myself. I was just as impressed as you about all the stuff that it comes with "out of the box". I also really love the portage system, and how easy Kuroo makes it to use. My graphics card can run compiz, but not well enough (it's an old geforece 2); however, I did appreciate the fact that it gave me the chance of setting it up so easily from the get go. The way the init scripts run is very organized, as well. I like that. It makes it so much easier to turn things on/off. My biggest gripe, I guess (besides the ugly [IMO] color scheme) is the NetworkManager system. It barely works. I immediately reverted to the traditional Gentoo network script system (which was VERY easy) and was completely satisfied. I actually use Sabayon myself. I was just as impressed as you about all the stuff that it comes with “out of the box”. I also really love the portage system, and how easy Kuroo makes it to use.

My graphics card can run compiz, but not well enough (it’s an old geforece 2); however, I did appreciate the fact that it gave me the chance of setting it up so easily from the get go.

The way the init scripts run is very organized, as well. I like that. It makes it so much easier to turn things on/off.

My biggest gripe, I guess (besides the ugly [IMO] color scheme) is the NetworkManager system. It barely works. I immediately reverted to the traditional Gentoo network script system (which was VERY easy) and was completely satisfied.

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