Sabayon 3.5 final liveDVD

Has anyone else checked this out? I booted up the LiveDVD 64 bit (I've always found Sabayon to run faster on my machine with 64 bit, unlike others). It has a different look and feel to it. Very nice. Compiz tweaked for KDE 3.5.9 OTB. Spritz Package manager seems much improved over the Portage. Packages seemed numerous and up to date. Wireless and all works OTB, the things you want to work on my machine anyway. Comes with a few 3D games. Not bad. Seems improved over 3.5 beta versions.

Anyone else tried this?

 

What makes Sabayon different from other distros? I remember hearing about it but I forgot everything else. I think its Gentoo based but thats about it.

 

Its hardware compatibility is the best, is a bleeding edge distro and includes a non-compile package manager for those who don't want to take the time to compile. Oh, the liveDVD is very bloated....has so much stuff on it.

I use it on my laptop, of course during installation I choose what packages I want this way I get a minimal system just for my hardware and build up from there instead of installing millions of drivers.

Now I have a gentoo system under the hood with all the nice features of sabayon.

 

blackbird....it let's you choose apps during install, rather than dump the whole DVD of apps on your drive? I'm talking about the LiveDVD.

 

Yes I'm talking about the LiveDVD.

It lets you select/unselect every ****ing individual package lol (3.4 didnt do this, it only let you choose between a group of applications for example say you dont want to install audio software or games etc... but 3.5 lets you choose the above way and the every package way, this way you can unselected unnecessary video drivers which are not for your card....everything)

 

yep, 3.4 is what I'm thinking of...I had it on my other laptop. Right now I've got opensuse 11 KDE4 on this one...and it seems stable so far. No probs. I broke my BT mouse, but that was my newbieness to Suse...won't do it again thanks

 

I like it because everything works off the bat for me, especially compiz. I stopped upgrading it after 3.4 though.

 

It's great at hardware support, even 3.4 gave me no ATI or Broadcom problems on my other laptop. Now, on this machine I'm using openSuse 11.0 because of the great KDE4 integration.