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."

Comments

Re:Pretty face

[corychristison]

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!

# etc-update

Works very nicely. ;-)

We're sorry, that name is taken.

[pridkett]

Rule number 1 about naming a project -- do a google search. If something else that might be pretty related comes up pretty easily, you've picked a crappy name. In this case Sabayon is already used as the name for GNOME profile editor. It seems like this has been around much longer too.

Rule number 2 about naming a project -- when naming a project, try to get a domain name that reflects the project. I'm confused about how I would know from a URL like http://www.lxnaydesign.net/ that it would be about Sabayon linux.

Remember to play nice boys and girls. And for the Sabayon Linux folks, don't worry, Mozilla made the same mistake a few years ago. Clear up the confusion and move on -- it looks like you've got a pretty slick little distro going.

Also offers a live cd

[Jarlsberg]

For those who don't have a DVD-rom drive, here's the link to the cd version: http://www.lxnaydesign.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4 115#4115, torrent: http://www.lxnaydesign.net/gentoo/torrents/RR4-Lin ux-3.0.RC1-miniEdition.torrent

Re:Program Naming

[eosp]

Kubuntu at least means something also. Wikipedia says it means "towards humanity" or something like that.

Re:Program Naming

[Red Flayer]

On the other hand, 90% of the linux applications available have names that look like they were chosen by picking random letters and squishing them together.

Well, sabayon is a real word, from the French (not exactly 'some obscure language') -- it's a sauce made with egg yolks, sugar, and wine. It's very nice on fresh fruit, or desserts that have a little tartness to them. Isn't it nicer to have a product named after a nice sauce than to have one that comes from "alphabet soup"?

As to Ekiga, there might be some association in Japanese -- or maybe not.

Either way, what's the problem with naming a product something distinctive? You know, something that people will remember? Or would you rather have all things named descriptively? Why do we buy a Honda Accord or Nissan Altima, instead of a "[Honda|Nissan] Mid-class Sedan"? Doesn't that just confuse the issue when car manufacturers refuse to name their products according to what they do? I mean, it's a real pain in the butt for me to recall that a Dodge Ram is a Dodge Large Pickup Truck.