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Default Sabayon 5.3 desktop

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Default Sabayon 5.3 desktop

Default Sabayon 5.3 desktop showing some menu items

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Sabayon desktop with menu items visible

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Sabayon 5.2 installation options

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ExpatPaul
13 years ago

I gave Sabayon a spin a few months ago. I learned a great deal while playing around with it, and there is much to like in the Distro. However, the accumulation of minor irritations led me to abandon it back in April.

I keep thinking of giving it another go, but on the basis of this review, will probably wait and see what 5.4 looks first.

abhifx
abhifx
13 years ago

a great distro for those who are starting with linux… easy to maintain too, sadly this is not for me.

ronw
ronw
13 years ago

Even with a root account, sudo makes sense to have, especially when it is configured to not allow starting a root shell (or running a command that can create a shell). For one, it allows sharing admin access without sharing the root pass word. For another, it allows granting only a subset of commands. In fact, each user can be granted a different subset of commands. Also, properly configured, sudo will provide better logging of who ran what commands as root.

davemc
davemc
13 years ago

Sabayon was my very first Linux Distro and it was a great place to start for someone with no experience in Linux. The community is fun and the developers are pretty cool folks. The Distro is a nest of bugs however, and the Developers are really not very interested in cleaning them up because they are too busy with future development, or they are simply not interested in fixing them.

Sabayon has strong and deep roots in Gentoo, a community that has a legendary reputation for being the very first among newby unfriendly Distro’s. Alot of the Gentoo attitude spills over into this Distro and you will see RTFM thrown around from time to time, and you will learn something about Linux, like it or not as I did. I appreciate Sabayon for helping me learn the fundamentals of Linux, and for teaching me that there is definitely greener pastures in Linuxland out there, like Fedora, Ubuntu, and ArchLinux.

Adriatic
Adriatic
13 years ago

The worst part of Sabayon experience is criminally bad support to setup static IP address.
Just look on the net, everyone is having problems with this.
I ended up being forced to use net-setup to set the static IP every time I boot the OS! It just forgets the setting one each reboot !!!!

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