Sabayon 5.1 : Another good KDE distribution
We all know KDE4.3 rocks! It is the greatest release from KDE developers that really just works. After switching my laptop to KDE from Gnome (thanks to great OpenSUSE 11.2 release) all of my hate for KDE4 has gone. Now it’s time to move on … because in Linux world you simply can’t stop your progress. This time it’s ‘Sabayon Linux 5.1‘.
Thanks to distrowatch, I was promptly notified that a new version of Sabayon is available and I downloaded it promptly. At boot prompt I got plenty of choices but I was on course to install it – so I didn’t care about other options. Installation was bit lengthy for me. General setup related questions were there but actual installation procedure took longer than OpenSUSE 11.2. Maybe because it installed more packages than OpenSUSE. Nonetheless in about 20 minutes I could do first boot to new Sabayon installation.
Default desktop was sleek, default font-size was exactly what I always use. Flash, multimedia audio and video codecs were pre-installed. I can start watching youtube videos right away. Another great news for me, xbmc comes pre-installed with Sabayon which I use as my main media center application. I can say that choice of pre-installed softwares are almost perfect for an average computer user. Kudos to Sabayon devs.
One somewhat disappointing observation was –
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