I might switch to Sabayon

[netstrider]

Hi,

I hope someone can help clear my mind regarding a few things. Last night I finished downloading Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which took me 5h on this slow connection, not to mention, I've only got 3GB p/m bandwidth so 700MB is now gone. Unfortunately the ISO seems to be faulty so I can't use it - meaning I wasted 5 hours and more than a sixth of my monthly bandwidth allowance.

So I guess my question is, does Sabayon have a cool package manager? I've never worked with any Gentoo-based system (at least not intensely) so I don't know ANYTHING about how portage works. I don't mind using the CLI to download things via portage but a graphical version would be cool too.

Where can I learn how to use the basic portage equivalent of ''apt-get install application''?

[daark.child]

Use the Gentoo Wiki and the official Gentoo docs if you need info on how to use Gentoo and the packaging system.

[Jonathan183]

Nothing like talking things up is there.

By the way why don't you just get the Ubuntu CD?

[netstrider]

I have ordered the Ubuntu CD but it will take several weeks before it lands in my postbox.

Thanks daark.child for the Gentoo docs.