Comments on: How things are going http://planet.sabayon.org/?p=70 In Sabayon land with Sabayon devs Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: foamstrat http://planet.sabayon.org/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-122 foamstrat Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:50:43 +0000 http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=70#comment-122 I just wanted to drop a thank you to you guys! I work in a networking department. 98% of our operating systems are windows servers. I have been wanting to get away from Windows for a long time. I am very new to Linux so trying to find and then get working compatible software for network admin and windows server compatibility has been very difficult. I have always wanted to try Gentoo but never had the time or patience to set up my work laptop. Your distro is amazing, does everything I needed and more. And never skipped a beat so far (only been using it for 2 days). It even recognizes and functions with all my hardware. Once again thank you!!! I just wanted to drop a thank you to you guys! I work in a networking department. 98% of our operating systems are windows servers. I have been wanting to get away from Windows for a long time. I am very new to Linux so trying to find and then get working compatible software for network admin and windows server compatibility has been very difficult. I have always wanted to try Gentoo but never had the time or patience to set up my work laptop. Your distro is amazing, does everything I needed and more. And never skipped a beat so far (only been using it for 2 days). It even recognizes and functions with all my hardware. Once again thank you!!!

]]> By: aniruddha http://planet.sabayon.org/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-120 aniruddha Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:32:37 +0000 http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=70#comment-120 Why Sabayon isn’t Gentoo I think AllenJB explained very well why Sabayon isn’t Gentoo: Sabayon is considered ‘close’ to Gentoo, but not necessarily ‘very close’ (atleast in my view). The reason for this is because Sabayon uses its own versions of some pretty major packages (browsing through their overlay, I see packages like grub, xorg-x11 and xorg-server to name just a few). The problem is not that we (the Gentoo community) don’t want to provide official support, it’s that we can’t (beyond a certain point). Sabayon provides its own version of many packages and these seem to (sometimes) lag behind the official Gentoo tree. A case in example: The other day someone came into #gentoo complaining that nvidia-drivers wouldn’t install with glibc-2.6. Glibc-2.6 no longer includes the nptl and nptl-only USE flags, but the Sabayon package was still looking for them. There’s nothing the Gentoo developers can do about this - it would require commit access to Sabayon’s overlay. There’s nothing much most users can do about this - The only suggestion I could make was “ask in #sabayon or use the package from the official tree”. Read the rest of this entry here » http://www.theopensourceactivist.com/index.php/2007/08/24/why-sabayon-isnt-gentoo/#more-57 Why Sabayon isn’t Gentoo

I think AllenJB explained very well why Sabayon isn’t Gentoo:

Sabayon is considered ‘close’ to Gentoo, but not necessarily ‘very close’ (atleast in my view). The reason for this is because Sabayon uses its own versions of some pretty major packages (browsing through their overlay, I see packages like grub, xorg-x11 and xorg-server to name just a few).

The problem is not that we (the Gentoo community) don’t want to provide official support, it’s that we can’t (beyond a certain point). Sabayon provides its own version of many packages and these seem to (sometimes) lag behind the official Gentoo tree. A case in example: The other day someone came into #gentoo complaining that nvidia-drivers wouldn’t install with glibc-2.6. Glibc-2.6 no longer includes the nptl and nptl-only USE flags, but the Sabayon package was still looking for them. There’s nothing the Gentoo developers can do about this – it would require commit access to Sabayon’s overlay. There’s nothing much most users can do about this – The only suggestion I could make was “ask in #sabayon or use the package from the official tree”.

Read the rest of this entry here »
http://www.theopensourceactivist.com/index.php/2007/08/24/why-sabayon-isnt-gentoo/#more-57

]]> By: random guy http://planet.sabayon.org/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-119 random guy Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:39:53 +0000 http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=70#comment-119 i am glad the relationship with gentoo is smooth. i remember the long debates a long time ago about whether sabayon was still gentoo and how the whole relationship goes. it alwasy brings happy tears to my eyes when i see opensource distros putting aside their differences and focusing on their similarities and helping eachother. no matter how good sabayon gets we should stay good to our gentoo roots. i give them a lot of respect. in a response to "how things are going" i would say on track. i am glad the relationship with gentoo is smooth. i remember the long debates a long time ago about whether sabayon was still gentoo and how the whole relationship goes. it alwasy brings happy tears to my eyes when i see opensource distros putting aside their differences and focusing on their similarities and helping eachother. no matter how good sabayon gets we should stay good to our gentoo roots. i give them a lot of respect.

in a response to “how things are going” i would say on track.

]]> By: Thoth http://planet.sabayon.org/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-118 Thoth Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:13:54 +0000 http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=70#comment-118 Great job guys ! can't wait for a full entropy release and new smoother graphics so I won't have to replace the current rough ones on install ;) Great job guys ! can’t wait for a full entropy release and new smoother graphics so I won’t have to replace the current rough ones on install ;)

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