On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Steve/WM5Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee Bengston wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I tried out Sabayon Linux version 3.5 recently, and I am satisfied >> enough with it to keep it on my dedicated linux desktop. Being new to >> Linux last year, I've been trying out a lot of different versions - >> it's amazing to me how many there are. Some of my friends and >> co-workers that are more experienced with Linux than I am have talked >> about Gentoo, but I never got around to taking the time to >> install/build it. Sabayon is more like a typical Linux distro when it >> comes to installation, but it uses the Gentoo portage system for >> package management, which means it installs various packages from >> source. It also has a binary package installation system, but so far >> I don't like it too much - seems to me it still needs some work. >> >> Anyway, I kept track of what I did to build Xastir in Sabayon 3.5, and >> there is a new HowTo in the installation notes section of the Wiki at >> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Notes >> >> Fyi, I noticed the installation notes for Gentoo in the Xastir Wiki >> say to use "emerge xastir", but when I tried that in Sabayon, it could >> not find anything with that name. It appears that Sabayon is using >> the same repositories, but perhaps not exactly. No worries, though, >> because I wanted to install from CVS, anyway. >> >> Regards, >> >> Lee - K5DAT >> Murphy, TX >> _______________________________________________
> > Good info Lee. Thanks. Oh, and I forgot to mention how good the wireless support is in Sabayon - at least with normally Linux-unfriendly Broadcom chips. I loaned the DVD to a friend at work who tried it on his wife's laptop, and wireless worked right out of the box. Previously he had needed to compile ndiswrapper in Ubuntu-Hardy in order to get wireless working. Her laptop has a Broadcom wireless chip. The live DVD also worked well witih the wireless chip in my wife's laptop, which is also a Broadcom. Thanks, Lee _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
