Comments on: Experiencing Sabayon 5, oh

By: Boudhayan Gupta

Boudhayan Gupta — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:11:59 +0000

@Everyone: The fix to enabling ALT+F2 in GNOME when Compiz is running, is to open CompizConfig Settings Manager from Fusion Icon and enabling the “GNOME Compatibility” plugin. Also, many other essential plugins are not enabled, whereas useless ones like Wobbly Windows are.

By: Arjun Pakrashi

Arjun Pakrashi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:21:03 +0000

Sabayon is good, but i dont know why i do not feel installing it in the system, and even i dont feel using it. I think the review says the correct X factor which is missing in the OS that is Love. It also needs some organization and a good application selection.

By: krazysanjay

krazysanjay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:03:43 +0000

Sabayon is awesome Distro but having poor hardware support, read a complete review on sabayon 5 on http://www.linux2u.co.cc

By: Sistla V. Abhishek

Sistla V. Abhishek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:18:24 +0000

The song at the beginning and the Live CD are very nice .. the live CD has all the features of a fully installed one ..

In the KDE Version all media are playing properly on amarok and vlc .. also the XBMC is too cool ... was never introduced to it in Ubuntu or Slackware :D ...

The shell is also kool ... the Sabayon Wallpaper is not too attractive but the other wallpapers are too good .. the leaf with the water drop is excellent .. and the konversation and kopete messenger are nice better than pidgin ( for me atleast ) .. and the panels are nice to configure .. and also the keyboard shortcuts are easy to configure .. the detection of drivers and the games videos and the whole media is running perfectly .. but as mentioned above there is no proper image viewing app included ..

Among the Widgets ( Right Click on the Desktop -> Add Widgets ) ... the Lancelot Launcher and the System Monitor Widgets are really nice and the System Monitor Widgets give a lot of info ..

But the sad part is that .. the ext2 file system and the Grub 0.9 version ( dint look at it properly so the exact version cant be told ). Also .. it took a lot of time for me to install the OS ..( probably because of my low config of 512Mb and 1.8Ghz Mercury P4 Board ). took me nearly 7 - 8 min for the live CD to fully function and 45 min for the OS to load ...

But ... all this said .. the sabayon five oh !!! is very nice for beginners and has all the media and the drivers detected correctly and well installed ...

After all this .. I have one problem .. i dint know how to control the volume in the XBMC ( Music files )

By: drsubhadip

drsubhadip — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:18:31 +0000

great review..
thank u

By: dave_p_b

dave_p_b — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:42:16 +0000

Hi. Great review. I understand what you mean when you refer to the package manager but you need to understand that it is still a work in process. Also, if you upgrade the package manager (Sulfur) to the latest version it works better.

Also, the package manager has an extra repository call sabayon-limbo, which includes all of the latest packages before they hit the main repository (including kde 4.3.2 !) All you need to do is open up the file /etc/entropy/repositories.conf (as ROOT) and paste the following at the bottom of the page.

repository|sabayon-limbo|Sabayon Linux Limbo Repository|http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/entropy|http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/entropy#bz2
repository|sabayon-limbo||http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/entropy|

Next time you open up Sulfur and update the repositories, you will get all the new packages from the sabayon-limbo repo.

All the best

Dave

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:24:11 +0000

Very nice review… well written and thought out! Even without checking out this Distro I always knew it was rough around the edges from looking at other reviews.

I dont think anything can compare to Ubuntu 9.10 though. It is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever! Its a real step forward in the right direction.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:23:56 +0000

Very nice review… well written and thought out! Even without checking out this Distro I always knew it was rough around the edges from looking at other reviews.

I dont think anything can compare to Ubuntu 9.10 though. It is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever! Its a real step forward in the right direction.

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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:48:44 +0000

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[...] Experiencing Sabayon 5, oh! Sabayon 5 (or Five oh!, as the project team likes to call it) came out on October 2, 2009. As has been the norm since the last couple of releases, it’s been divided into a KDE and GNOME live DVD. The last version LFY had bundled was version Four oh! (we skipped 4.1 and 4.2). It was a single Live DVD that contained both GNOME and KDE. So what our CD team has done this time is combine the two separate ISOs into a single live multi-boot DVD. The downside is, you’ll only get either of the two desktops, at a time. [...]