Review: Sabayon Linux 3.4a (Page 2 of 4)
Written by
Steve Lake
Posted on: Aug 24, 2007 at 04:30pm
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Installation
Getting started with the install was easy enough. Just double click on the desktop icon, answer a few questions and you’re off. The first two questions you’ll answer are your language and keyboard type. Next you can choose to either install new, or recover a previously damaged install. In my case I chose new, thus all my other choices will reflect this. Now while Sabayon is predominantly a KDE based environment, the next screen does give you the option to choose between the KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox or the Sabayon Linux Core Environment. The fourth one is there in case you’re installing Sabayon as a server OS and don’t need all the bells and whistles that come with the regular desktop environment. Being a KDE user myself, I chose to go with the KDE install. Oddly enough though, on the next screen it asked if I wanted to install Gnome. Not sure why, but it did. In the next screen you’re given the ability to choose what items you do and don’t want installed with your system. All of the primary options are already checked when you get here. To add more games, or adjust other features, you’ll need to add or remove sections here. Oddly enough, it’s an all or nothing proposition in this screen. You can cherry pick what applications you want. You either get everything under the category, or nothing. Deciding I wanted the full experience, I went with the kitchen sink approach and chose everything.
The next screen is the services screen. In it you can choose from any of four different services that will run on your computer. Samba, cups and SSH are chosen by default. There’s also a nice safety note at the bottom that informs you that by disabling all of these options you’ll have a more secure system. Admittedly this is true, but it also cripples some of your network functionality. I myself went with the default options already checked. The next screen gives you the ability to automatically partition your drives, or let the computer do it for you. Unless you have a reason to do it yourself, it’s best to use the automatic partition feature here. The next two screens just a verification that you really want to wipe out everything on the drive, or you want to do something slightly different. The next two screens are grub and network configuration (you only need to do anything in here if you have a special need. Otherwise leave them untouched.) which allow you to customize either your boot or network options.
And after that is a screen where you can setup your passwords for root, setup a super user and give them a pass, and setup additional users. One good note is that the installer won’t let you continue until you specify a password and it must be at least 6 characters. After that, it’s at least an hour’s wait, and some more Rip Van Winkle time until the system is completely installed and ready for use. Once that’s done, you’re ready to dive into your newly installed copy of Sabayon.
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