Posted by Dave on 5/27/2009, 6:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Sabayon"
207.119.0.11
If it's an old iso of Sabayon, I'd recommend you download a new one or your experience might be "interesting". I used a Ver 4.0 DVD I had ordered about 2 months ago and the upgrade was humongus (about 750-800 out of some 900 packages; I effectively downloaded the DVD all over again during the upgrade). Actually, there still seem to be parts of it which haven't upgraded yet; I'm hoping that future upgrades will work out the problems like they did in Mepis and Antix using the testing repos. And I haven't figured out yet how the source and binary trees fit together. It's a much different environment!
I tried Gentoo once and simply bounced :^). Gentoo's documentation is ubiquitous but I couldn't understand enough of it to do a successful install. I was attracted to Sabayon by the promise that the install would be much easier - and it was. Probably after getting acquainted with Sabayon I might gain enough knowledge to install Gentoo; however, they have so much disturbance in their community, and Sabayon is a better-organized fork with the same properties, that it might not be worth it.
By the way, the VirtualBox guest additions' file sharing features make it possible to share text between two separate distros as conveniently as if their file systems were joined. I'm more and more impressed with VirtualBox.
In faith, Dave
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