Sabayon ROCKS!

[timboellis]

I took tried Sabayon Linux , so far apart from Mandriva this is the only distro to get my 22" monitor resolution and my 3d Support of my Nvidia 8500GT card

[smolloy]

Despite my earlier praise, I have to admit to being quite disappointed with release 3.4. So disappointed that I got rid of it and installed Fedora 7.

As I said in my previous post, "For me the real benefit of using a gentoo based system is the portage package manager, so I didn't want to use sabayon if I couldn't emerge world.". For 3.4, however, updating world was a real pain in the ass, and caused me to completely hose my system twice. Once I realised that I didn't have the necessary skills to do a world update (it's not impossible to world update 3.4e, cos there are people on the Sabayon forum who have done it -- they're just better at it than me!), a lot of the attractiveness of Sabayon disappeared for me.

Fedora 7 does everything I need -- including making it easy to have a working Nvidia card -- so that's what I'm using now.

This isn't to say it's not a good distro. It just doesn't have what *I* want, and so I've stopped using it.

[timboellis]

Looking at your spec of machine it is more than identical as my machine, apart from the graphics I have a Nvidia 8500GT 256m , how fast would you say Fedora 7 runs in comparason to Sabayon and does the GLX work all okay as I get around 5000fps on GLXgears

[smolloy]

Speed comparisons are difficult (I have no idea of the frame rate I get for GLXgears, and I'm not entirely sure it's a meaningful comparison), but the *feeling* I get is that Fedora is smoother. I can check GLXgears when I get home if you're interested.

One thing I've noticed is that Fedora appears to use less system resources to do the same thing as Sabayon. For example, with Fedora the CPU usage reported by the uptime command will actually report "load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00" if the machine has been left idle for a while. I *never* saw this with Sabayon -- for some reason it always took a little CPU for Sabayon just to sit there doing nothing.

[timboellis]

Yes I would be interested just out of curiosity, the last time i tried Fedora was several years back suspect a lot has changed since then

[smolloy]

Like I said, I dunno if it's a meaningful comparison, but I get ~3000fps for glxgears.