This is FOR beginners BY a beginner...i.e. yours truely.
If you are a newbee i.e. beginner with absolutely no knowledge of the Linux world other than the knowledge that it exists and you wanted to try it sometime...than you HAVE to try SABAYON...why? Here we go:
I am a newbee to linux. I've heard of Linux in the year 2002 for the first time....thru Digit. I had even collected several Linux Distors since than but trying just one live CD between 2002 to November 2006.
When I heard that Win VISTA with the coveted "AERO" will be out sometime end January 2007 I called up Microsoft in Delhi (Gurgaon) to find out the price for it I was a bit discouraged as it was a bit too much at that point of time *and even now) to invest that kinda money when I don't really need a new operating system..I've been using genuine Win XP Media Center...you see I am hard core Windows Fan and I still am.
Anyway so I decided to Google a bit to see if there is anything equivalent to AERO in the Linux World, and that's when I heard of BERYL...I can imagine some Linux gurus in this forum smiling to themselves remembering all the silly questions I had asked about BERYL & LINUX in the past couple of months...ok back to the story...so I googled and googled and googled to "discover" that there are some freaking 350 odd Linux distributions...so my journey into the Linux world was confusing to say the least...at least for a person like me who's been a Windows fan all his computing life.
So I tried several distors starting with Mandriva 2007, Fedora Core6, Open Suse 10.2, Knopix 5.11, Centos 4.4, Ubuntu 6.06 & Ubuntu 6.10...(don't laugh that is just 2% of all the linux distributions out there)...anyway I had tried them out first on Live CD and then installed them onto my HDD. I had kept aside no less than a total of 100GB for these installations. There was a time when I even lost 50GB (actually I didn't loose it but didn't know how the hell to get it back after loading Mandriva & Fedora one after the other).
Of the distors I had tried, I liked Open Suse10.2, Ubuntu 6.10 & Mandriva 2007 the most...but every installation I had done had some problem or another, because of the million and one command shells that one needs to type and othr million and one repositories that one needs to download to extract complete multimedia experiance, but mostly bcoz I wanted BERYL working. I was successful in getting BERYL installed in Open Suse 10.2 first..so I was totally flipped out with the capabilities of BERYL but my joy was short lived as the system was unstable with BERYL eg. the system would either hang or crash if I played even a ancient arcade game or tried to burn a CD or DVD, but later on the problems were much more frequent making my computing life miserable...so I tired installing BERYL on UBUNTU 6.10 once again similar problems...in total I had re-installed Open Suse 10.2 about times & Ubuntu 10.2 about four times...ok all that was to convince you that I am dumb in the Linux World...so if I say SABYON is the best for dumb guys you have to trust me coz I'm an expert in that field with extensive experiance.
So to make this long story short...while googling around a couple of weeks ago I came across SABAYON Linux which as per several linux forums, is the most stable linux for BERYL. So I downloaded the DVD ISO and tried it out a couple of days ago. BTW I had installed it twice coz I forgot to put in my boradband IP address etc during installation and couldn't figure out how to after SABAYON got installed, he he he...once again that is to prove my credentials of expert dumbness in linux world.
(Amended on 27 FEB 2007: I forgot to mention that you need 10050mb space for this operating system..that's approx 10GB)
What is amazing about SABAYON is that EVERYTHING is "out of the box" you don't need to update/download any repositories...what a major relief for absolute beginners like me...just stick the DVD in the tray, follow some simple instructions...simpler than Windows...(check: *techgage.com/print/sabayon_linux_32 to believe it yourself, it has screen shots for you to easily understand the installation process)...and you've got a FANTASTIC Operating System that will blow your mind...it has EVERYTHING out of the box...you can transcode/encode DVD movies, rip them, watch them and what not, the system automatically recognises ALL the graphic cards (except the NVidia8800) and installs the required drivers and the same goes for any hardware that you stick in just after a brand new installation of SABAYON...all this WITHOUT downloading any repositories...for those of you beginners repositories are basically...hmmm, well, uh..."A GREAT BIG PAIN IN WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE"...they cause you untold misery, heartache and lost man hours if you are a beginner like me.
What's so AMAZING about SABAYON is that BERYL also works automatically you just need to by just clicking on one button...that's it...it's that simple. You can play games or watch DVD movies or play mp3's or encode DVD movies or update your antivirus all this while your system is in BERYL mode adn WITHOUT crashing a single time...it is ABSOLUTELY COOL.
I know most Linux gurus don't "approve" of the eye candy and stuff, as it is "wasting of time" coz you end up spending a lot of time on it...yes it is...but hey what the hell, I did NOT buy my PC for some office work (my office provides me one anyway) mine is a HOME PC i.e. I bought it essentially for FUN & GAMES and I LIKE to show off the capabilities of my PC and the power of it's OS to my "techno challenged" friends and family...I spent my hard earned money on it for PLEASURE, it helps me unwind...helps me be a tough a*s commando or a spy on a special mission or just a bum working his way up the ladder (SanAndreas) to kick a*s the bad guys in the gaming world...so I like ALL the eye candy I can get. If all of that is coming to me absolutely FREE thru SABAYON...WHY NOT? I am now convinced that SABAYON can do more than VISTA/AERO in terms of eye candy & multimedia (barring gaming ofcourse).
This baby also has LIVE HELP icon on the desktop...just click it (make sure ur internet connection is on) and an IRC client will automatically take you to the Sabayon chatroom...absolutely BRILLIANT for newbees.
This is way too se><y and smooth without the pain of typing million and one crazy n confusing shell commands...anyway the moral of the story is: if you are as dumb as I am to the linux world but would like to give it a try make sure you download and install SABAYON...for those in Mumbai if you want a copy of SABAYON I'll be glad to share it. Trust me you try SABAYON & you will forget VISTA for all practical purposes other than for gaming ofcourse.
Here is a little bit about what the SABAYON website has to say about it:
What is not Sabayon Linux
* It is not a binary-only distribution. Yes, you can install Sabayon Linux in half an hour and have a powerful Desktop under your hands. But our current policy does not mind the idea to fork Gentoo Linux packages management only because users don't like to waste their time with compilations. We have a clear idea, if you don't want to compile a lot of packages just wait for the next release, because, you always be able to:
o Update your current installation to the latest Sabayon Linux by running the Installer and choosing the Upgrade option
o Keeping up to date. Sabayon Linux release cycles are very very short. And if you just want to keep your PC secure, just use the glsa-check utility.
* It is not developed with politics in mind. This means that if we like an application over another, it's just because it could work better and be closer to our out-of-the-box philosophy described above.
* It is not Company driven. We have always been first of all, users, and then developers. That's our power and our view. We only want something that gets the job done, without Microsoft and their superficial Operating System implementation.
* It is not Ubuntu! We don't try to mimic any other distribution. We just take the best from each one.
Why Sabayon Linux is different from other distributions?
* Sabayon offers a complete out-of-the-box experience. This means it comes with preinstalled Multimedia, Internet and Gaming Abilities.
* Release are done in a short time. This means that you dont have depend on updating "by hand" to the latest and greates Software Available. Also you dont have to fiddle around with updates, and your system keeps consistent.
* Unlike most other Distributions its completely independent from commercial interests. No big firm stands behind Sabayon, and dicates how the Distribution should look like. The Developers of Sabayon Linux are all Users from other Distributions, so they started to make basically a distribution "from users for Users".
Wanna read more? than log on to: *www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sabayon_Linux2#Why_this_name.3F
If you are a newbee i.e. beginner with absolutely no knowledge of the Linux world other than the knowledge that it exists and you wanted to try it sometime...than you HAVE to try SABAYON...why? Here we go:
I am a newbee to linux. I've heard of Linux in the year 2002 for the first time....thru Digit. I had even collected several Linux Distors since than but trying just one live CD between 2002 to November 2006.
When I heard that Win VISTA with the coveted "AERO" will be out sometime end January 2007 I called up Microsoft in Delhi (Gurgaon) to find out the price for it I was a bit discouraged as it was a bit too much at that point of time *and even now) to invest that kinda money when I don't really need a new operating system..I've been using genuine Win XP Media Center...you see I am hard core Windows Fan and I still am.
Anyway so I decided to Google a bit to see if there is anything equivalent to AERO in the Linux World, and that's when I heard of BERYL...I can imagine some Linux gurus in this forum smiling to themselves remembering all the silly questions I had asked about BERYL & LINUX in the past couple of months...ok back to the story...so I googled and googled and googled to "discover" that there are some freaking 350 odd Linux distributions...so my journey into the Linux world was confusing to say the least...at least for a person like me who's been a Windows fan all his computing life.
So I tried several distors starting with Mandriva 2007, Fedora Core6, Open Suse 10.2, Knopix 5.11, Centos 4.4, Ubuntu 6.06 & Ubuntu 6.10...(don't laugh that is just 2% of all the linux distributions out there)...anyway I had tried them out first on Live CD and then installed them onto my HDD. I had kept aside no less than a total of 100GB for these installations. There was a time when I even lost 50GB (actually I didn't loose it but didn't know how the hell to get it back after loading Mandriva & Fedora one after the other).
Of the distors I had tried, I liked Open Suse10.2, Ubuntu 6.10 & Mandriva 2007 the most...but every installation I had done had some problem or another, because of the million and one command shells that one needs to type and othr million and one repositories that one needs to download to extract complete multimedia experiance, but mostly bcoz I wanted BERYL working. I was successful in getting BERYL installed in Open Suse 10.2 first..so I was totally flipped out with the capabilities of BERYL but my joy was short lived as the system was unstable with BERYL eg. the system would either hang or crash if I played even a ancient arcade game or tried to burn a CD or DVD, but later on the problems were much more frequent making my computing life miserable...so I tired installing BERYL on UBUNTU 6.10 once again similar problems...in total I had re-installed Open Suse 10.2 about times & Ubuntu 10.2 about four times...ok all that was to convince you that I am dumb in the Linux World...so if I say SABYON is the best for dumb guys you have to trust me coz I'm an expert in that field with extensive experiance.
So to make this long story short...while googling around a couple of weeks ago I came across SABAYON Linux which as per several linux forums, is the most stable linux for BERYL. So I downloaded the DVD ISO and tried it out a couple of days ago. BTW I had installed it twice coz I forgot to put in my boradband IP address etc during installation and couldn't figure out how to after SABAYON got installed, he he he...once again that is to prove my credentials of expert dumbness in linux world.
(Amended on 27 FEB 2007: I forgot to mention that you need 10050mb space for this operating system..that's approx 10GB)
What is amazing about SABAYON is that EVERYTHING is "out of the box" you don't need to update/download any repositories...what a major relief for absolute beginners like me...just stick the DVD in the tray, follow some simple instructions...simpler than Windows...(check: *techgage.com/print/sabayon_linux_32 to believe it yourself, it has screen shots for you to easily understand the installation process)...and you've got a FANTASTIC Operating System that will blow your mind...it has EVERYTHING out of the box...you can transcode/encode DVD movies, rip them, watch them and what not, the system automatically recognises ALL the graphic cards (except the NVidia8800) and installs the required drivers and the same goes for any hardware that you stick in just after a brand new installation of SABAYON...all this WITHOUT downloading any repositories...for those of you beginners repositories are basically...hmmm, well, uh..."A GREAT BIG PAIN IN WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE"...they cause you untold misery, heartache and lost man hours if you are a beginner like me.
What's so AMAZING about SABAYON is that BERYL also works automatically you just need to by just clicking on one button...that's it...it's that simple. You can play games or watch DVD movies or play mp3's or encode DVD movies or update your antivirus all this while your system is in BERYL mode adn WITHOUT crashing a single time...it is ABSOLUTELY COOL.
I know most Linux gurus don't "approve" of the eye candy and stuff, as it is "wasting of time" coz you end up spending a lot of time on it...yes it is...but hey what the hell, I did NOT buy my PC for some office work (my office provides me one anyway) mine is a HOME PC i.e. I bought it essentially for FUN & GAMES and I LIKE to show off the capabilities of my PC and the power of it's OS to my "techno challenged" friends and family...I spent my hard earned money on it for PLEASURE, it helps me unwind...helps me be a tough a*s commando or a spy on a special mission or just a bum working his way up the ladder (SanAndreas) to kick a*s the bad guys in the gaming world...so I like ALL the eye candy I can get. If all of that is coming to me absolutely FREE thru SABAYON...WHY NOT? I am now convinced that SABAYON can do more than VISTA/AERO in terms of eye candy & multimedia (barring gaming ofcourse).
This baby also has LIVE HELP icon on the desktop...just click it (make sure ur internet connection is on) and an IRC client will automatically take you to the Sabayon chatroom...absolutely BRILLIANT for newbees.
This is way too se><y and smooth without the pain of typing million and one crazy n confusing shell commands...anyway the moral of the story is: if you are as dumb as I am to the linux world but would like to give it a try make sure you download and install SABAYON...for those in Mumbai if you want a copy of SABAYON I'll be glad to share it. Trust me you try SABAYON & you will forget VISTA for all practical purposes other than for gaming ofcourse.
Here is a little bit about what the SABAYON website has to say about it:
What is not Sabayon Linux
* It is not a binary-only distribution. Yes, you can install Sabayon Linux in half an hour and have a powerful Desktop under your hands. But our current policy does not mind the idea to fork Gentoo Linux packages management only because users don't like to waste their time with compilations. We have a clear idea, if you don't want to compile a lot of packages just wait for the next release, because, you always be able to:
o Update your current installation to the latest Sabayon Linux by running the Installer and choosing the Upgrade option
o Keeping up to date. Sabayon Linux release cycles are very very short. And if you just want to keep your PC secure, just use the glsa-check utility.
* It is not developed with politics in mind. This means that if we like an application over another, it's just because it could work better and be closer to our out-of-the-box philosophy described above.
* It is not Company driven. We have always been first of all, users, and then developers. That's our power and our view. We only want something that gets the job done, without Microsoft and their superficial Operating System implementation.
* It is not Ubuntu! We don't try to mimic any other distribution. We just take the best from each one.
Why Sabayon Linux is different from other distributions?
* Sabayon offers a complete out-of-the-box experience. This means it comes with preinstalled Multimedia, Internet and Gaming Abilities.
* Release are done in a short time. This means that you dont have depend on updating "by hand" to the latest and greates Software Available. Also you dont have to fiddle around with updates, and your system keeps consistent.
* Unlike most other Distributions its completely independent from commercial interests. No big firm stands behind Sabayon, and dicates how the Distribution should look like. The Developers of Sabayon Linux are all Users from other Distributions, so they started to make basically a distribution "from users for Users".
Wanna read more? than log on to: *www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sabayon_Linux2#Why_this_name.3F
