Monday, July 23, 2007
Sabayon Business Edition - Not
Sabayon Business Edition came out in the last week. The installer provides a no-brainer fantastic Anaconda like installation with the ability to choose package groups and thats where the excitement ends.
Business Edition is a big misnomer, there is nothing business like about it. Without the Beryl/Compiz/Kicker eye-candy the OS felt like a red and black version of Knoppix. The Business Edition tag comes from the use of the stable Gentoo package tree instead of the testing tree used by standard Sabayon.
From a package perspective there was a lot of bloat (1.7GB distro disk) with lots of unnecessary apps. I think the real killer though was the poor menus, the programs are poorly categorised with two different HTML editors for example being placed under two different menus.
The developers are young and don't have much commercial experience, which is why I think they totally missed the mark with the Business Edition. This isn't SME worthy let alone corporate or enterprise. Ututo comes a lot closer to being a Gentoo based Business Edition.
All that said, I guess I am disappointed because I had quite high hopes for the BE. Anyway Sabayon 3.4 comes out in the next week and I will be reverting back to the smaller CD based version. I am starting to miss my 3D desktop and wobbly windows.
Business Edition is a big misnomer, there is nothing business like about it. Without the Beryl/Compiz/Kicker eye-candy the OS felt like a red and black version of Knoppix. The Business Edition tag comes from the use of the stable Gentoo package tree instead of the testing tree used by standard Sabayon.
From a package perspective there was a lot of bloat (1.7GB distro disk) with lots of unnecessary apps. I think the real killer though was the poor menus, the programs are poorly categorised with two different HTML editors for example being placed under two different menus.
The developers are young and don't have much commercial experience, which is why I think they totally missed the mark with the Business Edition. This isn't SME worthy let alone corporate or enterprise. Ututo comes a lot closer to being a Gentoo based Business Edition.
All that said, I guess I am disappointed because I had quite high hopes for the BE. Anyway Sabayon 3.4 comes out in the next week and I will be reverting back to the smaller CD based version. I am starting to miss my 3D desktop and wobbly windows.
