In the ‘things I should be putting off until after my paper is done’ category, I played with sabayon and the liveCD today. I’ve had a mention of sabayon on the liveCD HOWTO for a while, since it seemed like an obvious choice to create/manage the CD, but since it hadn’t been packaged until recently, I hadn’t had a chance to play with it directly. W00T. Thanks to the magical seb, it has now been packaged, and for my minimal test (set gconf key to, ahem, reassess an ubuntu file-manager design decision ;) it worked like a charm. I hope in the next few days I’ll find time to port all the changes I’m currently doing to a sabayon profile, and to experiment with using inheritance to play with language-specific changes. There is still a lot of learning to do here- I saw quite a few unintended side-effects that I’ll need to figure out, and perhaps some sabayon feature requests to file. But those are details- in general, I’m really excited that we finally have a tool for admins to use that really rocks, GNOME-style. Big thanks to everyone who has contributed code there- mostly DV and Mark, but also seb and many others. Rock on…