Sept 09 2011
The new ac adapter I got works great, but it appears that the battery needs to be replaced. One thing after another!
Anyway, last night I installed Sabayon XFCE on my distrohopping laptop.
The install went perfectly fine. I use the auto settings for partitioning which set it up how I would have done anyway (although I think it went a little big for root):
50GB for root
4GB swap
the rest (~120 GB) /home
All that with LVM, and I encrypted the drive. This was just a checkmark in the whole process, and it went very smoothly.
After the install, obviously the first thing I needed to do was get my wireless working--ah, they have the Gnome network manager here. I added my network and entered the password and voila, I had the wifis.
Then I saw the entry in the wiki "I just installed it, what do I do first?". I followed those steps to update the system using equo, which is the command line package management tool similar to apt-get or yum.
Sept 16 2011
It's been a few days, and I've been on vacation, but I've managed to use this laptop at least slightly in this time period.
I like Sabayon, I really do, but I just really don't love it. It works for just about everything, and it really is pretty (one of the best designed linux distros I have used). I don't think that I will stick with it, though. Sabayon has access to a great number of packages, however this is mainly through portage. You can compile and install software with this gentoo tool very easily and have access to a great number of features. The problem that I see is, you have to either choose portage OR equo, otherwise you risk system breakage. Equo is Sabayon's package manager for compiled packages. I've been using equo, but the selection of compiled packages is kind of lacking. (no Heybuddy, identicurse, or abcde).
I think it is good to check in with this distro from time to time, I think it really is promising and the developers are dedicated to putting out a quality product; but on the otherhand this distro just is not for me at this point in time.
I believe that the last time I was using it I stopped for similar reasons: I was using portage to build things and using equo for some other things (which I should not have been doing), and it caused some minor troubles.
Anyway, off I go to the next distro...now to decide what that will be!
Tags: #distrohop #linux #sabayon
