New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced(gentoo based)
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QwertyManiac
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"It's not that we hate you (unless we do). It's just that we have nothing to offer you, and you have nothing to offer us." - Bryan
Elitism!
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NucleusKore
TheSaint
As if we didn't have enough around already :S But then again when you see Ubuntu?! It has made such an impact.
aditya.shevade
Console Junkie
Looks good.... I am etching for some "geeky" work (in mehul's words) about Gentoo and related things...
NucleusKore
TheSaint
well @qwerty even I read that in their website!we should wait for the beast to come out !after all gentoo based is something inviting
You know something funny, today i was trying Sabayon 3.4 f on my virtualbox. During the install I selected KDE and clicked next. Now because I di dnot get to finetune the package selection I clicked back and guess what I saw, GNOME was selected. So I went back and selected KDE again and the thing repeated. Irritated I went back and selected GNOME, and then checked the detailed package selection, guess what, KDE was selected.
I then aborted the install
aditya.shevade
Console Junkie
^^ Lol....
Pat
Beyond Smart
I recently tried Sabayon 3.4 and it sucked big time! The package manager Portato was the biggest piece of **** ever developed
I then tried 3.5 Loop 3 which had their newer package manager 'Entropy' but the bugger would not install on my lappy (giving some weird python error during installation)!
Overall, I am not too pleased
aditya.shevade
Console Junkie
@Pat
Ask mehulved about Sabayon. I think he uses it. He might have answers to your queries.
Ask mehulved about Sabayon. I think he uses it. He might have answers to your queries.
Dark Star
Cyborg Agent
I recently tried Sabayon 3.4 and it sucked big time! The package manager Portato was the biggest piece of **** ever developed
I then tried 3.5 Loop 3 which had their newer package manager 'Entropy' but the bugger would not install on my lappy (giving some weird python error during installation)!
Overall, I am not too pleased
+1 Portato is a big headache.. I couldn't even install a package using that
Hope Entropy fixes those things !Gosh! Why would anyone use a GUI for portage is beyond me. Spend a few days and learn a bit of about portage. If you're afraid of CLI then sorry to say but keep away from gentoo. Gentoo is meant for people who're ready to tinker around a bit, that means learning somethings about CLI is essential.
Yes, entropy fixes a lots of -ve things about GUI frontends for portage, spritz is quite good. And hopefully entropy will gather enough mass to match portage and have a good GUI frontend.
Since I am quite familiar with gentoo, sabayon is just unstable arch of gentoo for me, I do all my upgrades and installations using portage, I don't rely on entropy as I need my custom use flags.
Yes, entropy fixes a lots of -ve things about GUI frontends for portage, spritz is quite good. And hopefully entropy will gather enough mass to match portage and have a good GUI frontend.
Since I am quite familiar with gentoo, sabayon is just unstable arch of gentoo for me, I do all my upgrades and installations using portage, I don't rely on entropy as I need my custom use flags.
Pat
Beyond Smart
Re: New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced(gentoo based)
No, not at all. Any GUI frontend to portage will be available on gentoo as well. People prefer sabayon cos it eliminates the work needed to bring up a gentoo system from the scratch.Well isnt that why people prefer Sabayon over Gentoo ?
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FilledVoid
Guest
Which is the only reason why I tried out Sabayon
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aditya.shevade
Console Junkie
see.. I told you mehulved will come to the rescue... of Sabayon not you....
Pat
Beyond Smart
That is what I meant..With Sabayon I get a gentoo flavor plus I dont have to have to switch to command line for every second thing!
Depends on your work, whether you need to go to command line or not. I prefer to do most of my things on CLI, so even with sabayon, I am more often in CLI, checking my mails, chatting on IRC, running torrents, compiling packages, etc.
But, if you aren't looking to touch CLI, then keep away from portage. Portage works best on CLI, atleast at present, there isn't any good front end to it and probably there won't be since the intended audience can always fire up their commands on CLI.
Prolly entropy in sabayon will remove the need of using CLI for package management, yes, it will take away the amount of control portage gives but it maybe more GUI friendly, will have to wait till entropy matures.
But, if you aren't looking to touch CLI, then keep away from portage. Portage works best on CLI, atleast at present, there isn't any good front end to it and probably there won't be since the intended audience can always fire up their commands on CLI.
Prolly entropy in sabayon will remove the need of using CLI for package management, yes, it will take away the amount of control portage gives but it maybe more GUI friendly, will have to wait till entropy matures.
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