Hi. Maybe it offtop, but are you know about yet another gentoo-based distro Calculate?
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=calculate On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM, skiarxon <skiar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > Hi, all. > >> > > >> > Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo. Yet, reading > reviews > >> > of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see any similarity > >> > between G and S; S is a binary distribution, doesn't have portage, and > >> > doesn't look like having much flexibility. > >> > > >> > Purely out of curiosity, what is the nature of this "derivation"? > >> > >> they use the portage tree and a gentoo like /etc. Just for example. > AFAIR > >> of > >> course. > > > > You can think Sabayon as another Gentoo overlay (you can actually install > > the overlay in your Gentoo installation). It provides binary packages and > > many other things to help the user, still though you can use emerge and > all > > the features (if not all most) Gentoo has to offer. All in all is a > pretty > > good job. > > > > In fact I believe you can use layman to add the sabayon overlay, > emerge entropy (Sabayon's binary package manager) and start using it. > (I'm sure it's not entirely that straightforward, but that's the > executive summary) > > -- brgds Maxim
