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First Impressions of Sabayon Linux
chix4mat writes "Techgage takes a first look at the upcoming Gentoo-based distro 'Sabayon.' It's a feature-filled Live DVD that allows you to install within minutes. Users are treated to a Vista-esque KDE theme, with transparent windows The greatest feature of the distro is the hardware and software support. DVD movies work from the start in addition to audio, bluetooth, WiFi and even XGL."
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Global warming is a cube.
names that look like they were chosen by picking random letters and squishing them together.
Everyone has that problem with english language. They have more acronyms than regular words.
This is just a pretty face on top of gentoo.
You still have to emerge big time every week, wait days, then reconfigure all of your conf files to work with new versions. High maintenance!
Product Naming Conventions by Platform
Apple: Prepend 'i' to the product name: iMac, iPod, iBall, etc.
Windows: Add "Visual," "Explorer," or "Tycoon" to the product name.
Linux: Prepend 'g', 'k', or 'x' to the product name, depending on whether the product is GNOME-centric, KDE-centric, or non-denominational. Alternately, bang head on keyboard.
Sybian Linux: the first female-user-centric distro.
There are only 17,576 TLAs, but there are 456,976 FLAs (which, oddly enough, is a TLA).
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Since it's Gentoo-based it probably downloads the driver sources and then compiles it. The "installed in a few minutes" just means it can install a basic OS with a compiler and all the sources in a few minutes. After that it has to compile everything so that you can optimize it for your very unique machine so it'll be 0.5% faster than Ubuntu. :-)
However, of course this means that they can do this all without voiding any license.
To the I want it to just work folks.
These people are devoting their time to making this software, they aren't getting paid.
I'm sure many of you think they're just crazy hippies but the fact is they have motivations, often political/spiritual for why they want people to have access to this software.
This will affect how the software is developed, it's unavoidable, and you would do well to spend a little time actually investigating the mindset of the FOSS community.
These people are giving you certain abilities you didn't have before, that's why you use their software. And they're hoping you won't use those abilities to say steal someone's identity or take away people's jobs... perhaps they are being naive.
Distro's like Ubuntu have interesting names because they hope you'll check wikipedia before complaining and actually take a look at the philosophy underlying the software they are giving you for free.
You said it, bro!
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Why, on my machine, when I want to create a presentation, I have to use something called 'PowerPoint'. For weeks I didn't touch it because I thought it was some sort of weird ACPI tool, and I was shutting down and rebooting enough that I figured I didn't need it.
It turns out I also have an email app called "Outlook" which I thought was a weather forecaster. It hasn't worked well; maybe I should switch -- I see there's a faster version called 'Outlook Express'.
The file system app is called 'Explorer' which is confusingly named the same thing as the web browser.
There's also this thing called "Access" which, as near as I can guess, is a kind of server that's supposed to give everybody on the internet 'access' to my data.
Oh, and I have to click on a button labeled 'Start' to shut down
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I'm waiting for "Proctologix", the distro to put a foot in Vista's ass.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Regarding Konqueror, it's actually a great name. Consider this:
(Netscape) Navigator
(Microsoft) Explorer
(KDE) Konqueror
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.