On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire > > > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using > > > pre-compiled binary packages." > > > > > > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install? > > > > I presume that the statement may refer to a stage 3 Vs a stage 1 > > install? > > A Stage 3 is the standard Gentoo install, which seems remarkably similar > to what Sabayon is offering and nothing like what they claim Gentoo does.
Indeed. I don't know when they started, or when that statement was penned, but it may have been back in the day when we were all bootstrapping our systems. -- Regards, Mick
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