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**Anorion** · 04-12-2008, 07:56 PM

I think it was in the DVD of one of the recent months, will have to tell you which tomorrow. Anyway, had a look:

1. Any Winamp like player exists in Sabayon ?
-Nyah, unless you count Mplayer

2. VLC pre installed ?
-No, but they have real player pre-installed

3. MS Office compatibilty ?
-What specefically? You cannot throw something like docx at it. But such things can be handled.

4. How easy is to install softwares ?
(In Ubuntu just go to synaptic manager and install)
-Depends on the software, but the GUI is pretty good

5. Which torrent client to use ?
6. Which CD/DVD burner software ?
-There are many available

Don't like this distro too much. It looks a lot better than many other distros, but when you move the windows around there is some weird wave effect that is very irritating. Also it is very slow for some reason. I suggest you go for Open Suse, if you want to avoid Ubuntu or Fedora. Also I checked out only the 3D kernel, there are a whole bunch of kernels available. I think eight, but I did not count too carefully.

04-12-2008, 07:56 PM	#10 (permalink)
Anorion <Sparkling Pwnies> Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 954	Re: How easy is Sabayon Linux for beginners ? I think it was in the DVD of one of the recent months, will have to tell you which tomorrow. Anyway, had a look: 1. Any Winamp like player exists in Sabayon ? -Nyah, unless you count Mplayer 2. VLC pre installed ? -No, but they have real player pre-installed 3. MS Office compatibilty ? -What specefically? You cannot throw something like docx at it. But such things can be handled. 4. How easy is to install softwares ? (In Ubuntu just go to synaptic manager and install) -Depends on the software, but the GUI is pretty good 5. Which torrent client to use ? 6. Which CD/DVD burner software ? -There are many available Don't like this distro too much. It looks a lot better than many other distros, but when you move the windows around there is some weird wave effect that is very irritating. Also it is very slow for some reason. I suggest you go for Open Suse, if you want to avoid Ubuntu or Fedora. Also I checked out only the 3D kernel, there are a whole bunch of kernels available. I think eight, but I did not count too carefully.