On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:47:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > 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.
in all fairness, that quote is from wikipedia, not sabayon directly. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
