Come with a great vista-like theme by default, tons of the lastest and greatest apps. :)
http://techgage.com/article/sabayon_linux_rc2
Looks good
I guess a liveDVD works faster than a CD too, as DVDs run at higher speeds.
Might give that a go sometime - just reading the article, theres a command you can run to make it switch on all the fancy XGL stuff, so thats definately cool :mrgreen:
Shame it uses KDE as its default desktop environment.
A lot of people at work use KDE and its awful. Copy and paste in Konsole is truely broken.
Cornet
It comes with several environments, including KDE. ;) Thats the beauty of DVD.
I have binned Ubuntu and now run this as my O/S :)
XGL is sooooo cool - spinny rotaty cool cube & wobbly windows and that :)
It feels fundamentally different to Ubuntu though.. still really struggling to find my way around (where is synaptic?! - is it called Kuroo?) I have found emerge in the command line.. I *think* its doing the equivalent of an "apt-get update" but who knows :lol:
also I need a more beefy PC, theres a big delay when opening things - this is the 2nd time I have re-installed (which takes ages) as I thought it was broken first time I used it. it wasnt, i just wasnt being patient enough for, say... Firefox to open.
That or find a way of turning XGL off, I think.. hmmm. My load averages are sitting between 1 and 2 :shock: thats for all of the averages! inc. the 15minute one (1.40 at the moment) - XGL is using between 5 & 10 percent CPU at all times, I guess the GPU is getting a fair hammering too ;)
I think your 3d acceleration isnt working @ snellgrove.
Mainly because XGL on my ubuntu machine here.
9800pro 128mb
and 2500+ mobile running at stock
uses about 2%cpu if that, and runs as smooth as a babies bum, and things load instantly.
definately is - whole idea of Sabayon is to detect nvidia / ati and setup XGL for you :D its great.
The graphics are smooov, just load averages tend to be high if I do lots of stuff. I think I under-estimated how much I was doing?! or the O/S was busy in the background as it was its first run or something. who knows....
I think the O/S is settling in nicely, Ive done a few updates - kuroo is indeed the GUI to emerge, which is a CLI to portage :lol: updates take blimmin ages as its all compiled :roll: doubt it makes any performance difference at all but hey ho..
as I am writing this with only a terminal with top running my load averages are:
0.26 0.41 0.32 - not too bad all in all.
My PC has an Athlon 2600, 2GB RAM & FX5200 gfx card.
that looks more like my averages there mate :)
Drooling at your 2gb ram too :D lol. Stupid me allocated 5GB as a swap file instead of 500 mb, when I have 1.5gb ram... swaps a bit pointless! :D
No, thats a good thing tbh.
it gives you flexibility if / when you need it..
I stupidly only did 1.5GB swap, as I had 1GB ram.
Hugin swallowed all my RAM & Swap, when stitching photos.
I now have 2GB RAM & 3GB swap :) never know when it may come in handy.
lol in fairness though your photos are like what... 8mb minimum from your 20d. Mine on full raw are 8MB. :) Stitching with say 5 to 10 photos takes about a gig of ram up :D thats it :D
I have a 350D :)
I use JPG instead of raw, they sit around 3 to 4MB or so.
> 10MB if I use raw !
slowly doing updates at the moment, cant be doing an:emerge update world because it apprantly can take weeks! as everything has to be re-compiled.
ah f**k it mate, Id just go and do it, let it download the stuff, and leave it on for a while.
meh I am now back on Ubuntu :P
I think Sabayon will be really good in 6 to 12 months. (although they are planning on removing gnome, so ill probably hate it - KDE is a mess)
Its more of a quantity, not quality at the moment - some areas seem to lack polish.
That and I think Ubuntu will be pretty stable now, as its a completely clean install (groan: I have to re-rip all my music...etc)
If it isnt stable I think ill be looking into hardware issues - Ive run Seatools & whatever it is Western Digital use, both came back saying drives were fine. It could be some other hardware, mind...
bye bye ubuntu for a long time, I think....
Basically the reason I chose Sabayon is Ubuntu kept ...sort of crashing.
I mean, the clock would stop, you couldnt click on anything, the keyboard would stop working but you could move the mouse around the screen and music you had going would continue.
was weird, I suspected hardware but Sabayon was fine - just unpolished.
Im now on Debian Stable (my gawsh, its not as pretty!) doing a dist-upgrade to testing at the moment, which brings it a bit more up to date with the expense of some stability no doubt.
Hopefully this one will pan out quite well :) shame about Ubuntu though.. I really liked that O/S. :)