Review: Sabayon Linux 3.3
Sabayon Linux aims to give users all the bleeding edge software of SimplyMEPIS and PCLinuxOS but is based on Gentoo and uses Portage as its package management system. I haven’t used Gentoo for a couple of years now, but Sabayon’s popularity is continually increasing and with a new release it’s now time to give it a try.
Intrigued by a few of these boot options I decided to play around with them before seriously trying out the distro. I picked Anonymous Internet Browsing which booted up fine on my desktop. It did take a few minutes to boot, but eventually the Nvidia splash screen appeared and I was greeted with a screen asking me to configure my desktop acceleration. I opted to go with AIGLX since XGL was supposed to be more compatible with ATI cards, I assumed that the other would be more compatible with Nvidia cards. Also AIGLX says it is the best choice for performance and stability, so that’s what I went with.
It reconfigured and restarted X and then KDM came up. I logged in to the default user account and up came KDE. I noticed something… it looked like it was running at the proper resolution for my monitor (1440×900). I went to the display configuration settings, and sure enough it was set for 1440×900. This is the first distribution that I’ve tried that correctly set my monitor’s display resolution automatically.
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