Sabayon Linux 3.2
It's been a full four months since we have taken a look at the "sequel" to the RR4 distro, Sabayon. Named after an Italian desert, I am not sure how that relates itself to Linux. Perhaps because it's a tasty distro? There's no denying that this is one of the most robust and fresh looking distros out there, so that may very well be the case.
When I first touched Sabayon, I was immediately impressed for a variety of reasons. The first being the superb hardware detection, which was the best I've found in any distro. Upon initial boot, everything was detected. Sound, graphics, network and even power saving capabilities if you are on a laptop. The distro is built on top of Gentoo, one of the more popular source based distributions. Although Gentoo by itself is strictly for people who enjoy a learning curve or people who understand the ins and outs of Linux to begin with, Sabayon caters to everyone. Those who understand Linux well, and those who don't understand Linux at all.
You could say that I am a fan of Sabayon, although I don't personally use it as my regular everyday OS. I personally use Gentoo on my regular system, primarily because I like to start from scratch and build it up. Sabayon is a distro for those who love having a complete system, without having to worry about many add-ons. As you will see shortly, after installing Sabayon you will have a complete system ready for anything. That includes browsing the internet, photo editing, playing music, watching DVD movies... ripping/burning DVD's... and so on. All of this can be done after the first boot -without- any user intervention, or having to load up the konsole.
That all said, let's jump right into it and see what we have new and updated.
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