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ButteBlues
January 11th, 2007, 05:39 AM
A few weeks back, I gave Sabayon a try.

I wanted to give the whole Gentoo experience a shot.


Sadly, I was forced to abandon it, since I could only use the MiniCD, and my laptop cooked and shutdown any time I tried to update the simplest package, since it all builds from source.

I guess Sabayon will have to wait until I can get a new desktop. :(
RAV TUX
January 11th, 2007, 06:33 AM
A few weeks back, I gave Sabayon a try.

I wanted to give the whole Gentoo experience a shot.


Sadly, I was forced to abandon it, since I could only use the MiniCD, and my laptop cooked and shutdown any time I tried to update the simplest package, since it all builds from source.

I guess Sabayon will have to wait until I can get a new desktop. :(

Sabayon makes it clear it is not for older hardware.










http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9594/sabauserbaruserv2kk5db5.png
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2989/beryluserbarra2.png
ButteBlues
January 11th, 2007, 12:53 PM
Sabayon makes it clear it is not for older hardware.










http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9594/sabauserbaruserv2kk5db5.png
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2989/beryluserbarra2.png
My laptop really isn't too old - it still cooks.
woopud
January 29th, 2007, 06:32 AM
Sabayon 3.25 flies on my HP AMD64 laptop !

Bert
meng
January 29th, 2007, 06:43 AM
Sabayon crawls on my notebook, which granted is almost 4 years old but has 512MB RAM and runs Ubuntu a treat!
woopud
January 29th, 2007, 03:19 PM
Well, my laptop has only 512 mb too, what kind of processor you have ?
Bert
meng
January 29th, 2007, 09:20 PM
P-4 2.8 GHz, poor cousin to yours! Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 run at near-lightning speed though.
woopud
January 30th, 2007, 05:51 AM
Well, it's only a 800mhz amd64 , 512mb ram and sabayon still rocks on this laptop and most importantly, broadcom wireless works out of the box ! So far I like it better then Ubuntu.

Bert
FuturePilot
January 30th, 2007, 06:19 AM
Sabayon didn't like my laptop. It was slow, especially running updates.:( Beryl was an issue too.
Antman
April 16th, 2007, 05:36 PM
Old thread but I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
I use both Ubuntu 6.10 and Sabayon 3.3 (DVD edition) on my laptops. Both run great, but Sabayon supports more of my laptop features out of the box (like suspend mode and such).

Even though I'm not thrilled about the "compile a new app thing", at least I can still use my machine while it is compiling. Also, the Sabayon team is soon to release a binary install tool that should ROCK... :guitar:

Ant