so pclinuxos was great but i still wanted gentoo damn it, so i figured i get sabayon running eh 
but since i was gonna dump pclos i figured i'd take up suse on it's claims about 10.2 so i tried that first. biggest waste of my life...but then again where there any surprises. i will admit that this suse release is the best up to this point, but novel still has much to learn from even mandriva when it comes to simplicity... yast, among other things tries so hard to be "easy" that it actually makes things more difficult... anywhoo...on to sabayon..
i got the x86_64 version since i know the install would be binary and i wanted at least some type of optimization out of this, although maybe not quite as optimized as the good old fashioned gentoo. the installation was pretty slow (at least an hour with a 24x combo drive and a 7200rpm hdd). even though the website says the installs are now 3x faster than they were before, even in 3.2 beta. after the install my biggest hurdle was wireless, it wouldn't connect for the life of it (madwifi drivers were included by default). so i tried my pcmcia card and still no luck, i even resorted to ndiswrapper and failed. i was all but ready to quit until i tried one last thing, unmerged madwifi-ng and installed the madwifi snapshot i have on my flashdrive...and what do you know , it worked. so WARNING: included wifi drivers are broken.
i installed a generic kde profile (you have a choice of kde, gnome, xfce, e16, or fluxbox)..i know i said i didn't like kde, but it seems that in this case, kde is the most developed, so thats what i went with. but it came with everything and the kitchen sink so currently i am unmerging all the programs i'll never use (edutainment for one) to really make it "my own".... anywhoo..more to come.
but since i was gonna dump pclos i figured i'd take up suse on it's claims about 10.2 so i tried that first. biggest waste of my life...but then again where there any surprises. i will admit that this suse release is the best up to this point, but novel still has much to learn from even mandriva when it comes to simplicity... yast, among other things tries so hard to be "easy" that it actually makes things more difficult... anywhoo...on to sabayon..i got the x86_64 version since i know the install would be binary and i wanted at least some type of optimization out of this, although maybe not quite as optimized as the good old fashioned gentoo. the installation was pretty slow (at least an hour with a 24x combo drive and a 7200rpm hdd). even though the website says the installs are now 3x faster than they were before, even in 3.2 beta. after the install my biggest hurdle was wireless, it wouldn't connect for the life of it (madwifi drivers were included by default). so i tried my pcmcia card and still no luck, i even resorted to ndiswrapper and failed. i was all but ready to quit until i tried one last thing, unmerged madwifi-ng and installed the madwifi snapshot i have on my flashdrive...and what do you know , it worked. so WARNING: included wifi drivers are broken.
i installed a generic kde profile (you have a choice of kde, gnome, xfce, e16, or fluxbox)..i know i said i didn't like kde, but it seems that in this case, kde is the most developed, so thats what i went with. but it came with everything and the kitchen sink so currently i am unmerging all the programs i'll never use (edutainment for one) to really make it "my own".... anywhoo..more to come.
