Archived thread 335930 from Gentoo and derivatives. Markdown source: Gentoo_and_derivatives/thread_335930_Sabayon_vs._the_laptop.md
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. :(
a simple façade said: 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.
[IMG]http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9594/sabauserbaruserv2kk5db5.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2989/beryluserbarra2.png[/IMG]
RAV TUX said: Sabayon makes it clear it is not for older hardware.
[IMG]http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/9594/sabauserbaruserv2kk5db5.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2989/beryluserbarra2.png[/IMG] My laptop really isn't too old - it still cooks.
Sabayon 3.25 flies on my HP AMD64 laptop !
Bert
Sabayon crawls on my notebook, which granted is almost 4 years old but has 512MB RAM and runs Ubuntu a treat!
Well, my laptop has only 512 mb too, what kind of processor you have ? Bert
P-4 2.8 GHz, poor cousin to yours! Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 run at near-lightning speed though.
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
Sabayon didn't like my laptop. It was slow, especially running updates.:( Beryl was an issue too.
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