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Sabayon 4.2 on VirtualBox

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

sabayon1VBox specs:

RAM 256MB

Disk Space 15GB

Installation

Installation in general is easy. There are already pre-defined options. You just have to choose if you really want them included. And, there’s also an option on how your Sabayon experience would be, like you can choose if you want it plain and simple or hard core linux user cause it’ll be on commandline all the way.

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Bootup

It’s good enough. Quick enough for me.

Add/Remove Packages

At first I didn’t notice which one is it because launcher is way beyond what I expected it to be called. Here goes, it’s called Sulfur. Anyway, it quickly loaded available and installed packages.

sabayon4

Bundled Applications

1. Firefox 3

2. Pidgin 2.5.7

3. OpenOffice 3.1

4. Gnome Do

5. Entropy Repository Manager

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What I like

I instantly noticed its theme, I like it! I can go nuts over such simple yet brilliant (for me) theme. It’s sophisticated looking if I may say so.

It’s easy to install.

What I don’t like

Having a transparent background for terminal set by default.

Final Words

There are many things that I am yet to discover about Sabayon Linux. This is actually the first time I ever used a Gentoo based Distribution so I’m a little excited. Actually, I’m dying to see if this distro can handle my laptop’s devices. Good thing its installer comes with LiveDVD. Yay!