Sabayon 5.3 Review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2010

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“Sabayon is a multi-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux
distribution. It is part-source, part-binary distribution. I just
call it a hybrid distribution. The latest update, Sabayon 5.3, was
made available to the public in early June. Installation images are
available for the GNOME, KDE, LXDE and Xfce desktop environments.
This review is based on the GNOME edition.

“The main purpose of the reviews published on this site is to
give readers a good idea of what they would experience if they
actually downloaded and installed the distribution on their
computer. It is, therefore, necessary to highlight good features,
or features I think will lead to a positive user experience. It is
also necessary to highlight badly implemented features, or features
that could give a negative user experience. For this review, let’s
begin by looking at the features I think you’ll like on Sabayon
(5.3).

“Anaconda – Because Sabayon 5.3 uses the latest edition of
Anaconda, the Fedora installation program, you can configure full
disk encrypted LVM just by clicking a checkbox (LVM is the default
disk partitioning scheme). You may also encrypt individual logical
volumes.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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