On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, François Revol <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:21:23 +0100, Achim Hasenmueller a écrit : >> Fabio, >> >> our policy is to limit the number of separate guest OS types we show. >> Especially in the Linux area, we have to be very careful to not >> overwhelm >> the user. For Sabayon, we already offer Gentoo which is a close >> relative.
I understand Achim point here, but still... using the same source code and patches doesn't mean that Sabayon == Gentoo, especially in respect of shipped kernel config: - Gentoo ebuilds don't offer Linux kernel binaries nor an OOTB way to build a Linux kernel (genkernel needs kernel config anyway). - Sabayon has several different kernels available (server, openvz, desktop, and there will be more in future) - Even if most pkgs don't diverge (like virtualbox-guest-additions), others do. In addition, we offer a completely different binary package manager called Entropy (if that matters). Of couse, this is up to you, I was just interested in submitting the patch because you might have liked it ;) After all, there are both Debian and Ubuntu listed (probably for the same kernel differences stated above in respect of Sabayon and Gentoo -- and I can imagine, marketing reasons). > > > It might be possible to add some more description to each entry, like > "Gentoo and other Gentoo-based distributions, including Sabayon, ..." This could be interesting. > > On the VM creation wizard, there is some room below the drop-downs... > Or Tooltip maybe ? > > > François. > Regards, -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
