Sabayon Linux has always been known as the "swiss army knife" of Linux distributions, given all that it had installed, and all that it could do. But that title may slowly be slipping as other distributions quickly catch up to it in the "all in one" category. But does that affect how Sabayon operates? Well, let's find out.

LiveDVD

The LiveDVD starts out and boots without any fanfare or special interaction by the user. What's interesting is that as it boots up, a rock and roll song starts playing. I think it's called the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, but I'm not sure. That automatically gives me warm fuzzies knowing that it detected the sound card without any problem, which also means that the other hardware was also likely detected without issue.

And it was. Everything was detected without issue.

Another interesting thing worth noting is the little key phrase that appears as the DVD is loading. It says "Open your source, open your mind". I think that's a great phrase, as it says a lot about open source, and what you should do if you want to use it.

Once the desktop loads, you're greeted with a folder that includes links for Firefox, XBMC, World of Goo (demo), Gparted and several other items. Another interesting thing that Sabayon does upon boot is it runs a disk indexer to help you have faster searches for files.

The list of software included with Sabayon is impressive as always, but of late it seems less than what it used to. Of course that's because more distros are starting to copy Sabayon's “swiss army” mentality, and are also shipping their distros packed to the hilt with software so that they're ready to go as soon as they're loaded or installed.

But that doesn't mean that Sabayon is not without its surprises. One of the biggest, for me at least, is the inclusion of Compiz tools and XBMC. That's a plus in and of itself. I could do without the Compiz, but having XBMC there has several advantages. Yes, Sabayon is a desktop distribution first, but that doesn't mean it can't also double as a DVR, or DMC.

Another interesting change I've found with Sabayon 5 is that the speed seems to have improved greatly. One of my big gripes with it in the past was that, yes it has everything and the kitchen sink, but because of that it ran like a dog. Not anymore. There is a very noticeable speed increase, and even though this has never been a problem, I still do want to point out that it's rock solid stable.

Software load times are also excellent, and I really have no complaints with how the system is running. It seems to do exactly what you need, and what it's done before, only faster.
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The UPS man rang my buzzer. I sat in my chair sweating bullets. Do I even dare? Despite better judgment, I buzzed him in. "Did anyone see you?" I asked in a nervous voice. "Uh, just sign here." He gave me an annoyed look and after getting my John Hancock, he handed me the package. I hurriedly closed my blinds, fearful someone might see the contents as I opened it. The package sat on my coffee table for about an hour while we (that is to say, me and the package) stared each other down. A scene from the cult classic Terry Gilliam movie Time Bandits came to mind: "Mum! Dad! Don't touch it! It's pure evil!"

While I doubt the package contained pure evil (in fact, I was pretty sure it contained some install CDs and perhaps some manuals), I'm sure many of my friends as well as tens of thousands of others in the open source community would conclude otherwise.

For you see, the package was from SCO. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnn.

The purpose of that lame little melodrama was to illustrate the rather unique context of this operating system review. I want to be as objective as possible, but I'd be a fool to think such a review could possibly avoid the controversy and raw emotions surrounding the company offering the product I've chosen to evaluate.

The SCO Group has earned their now nefarious reputation of pure evil from the open source community and others for their recent legal tactics. However, separate from the legal arguments and the drama of the battle of the open letters, SCO does actually sell a product (beyond "licenses" for Linux).

Actually, they have a pair of Unix offerings: UnixWare and OpenServer. SCO recently announced they'd sold licenses to these products to a number of companies, including McDonald's and Warner Brothers. Not having used either, and giving the mounting controversy, I decided to take a look at what SCO considers their premier Unix offering, UnixWare 7.1.3. Drama aside, UnixWare is an operating system that people do use, so I figured it's worth a look and arranged to do an evaluation.

The Test System

The system I used to test is definitely not top of the line, but it is indicative of the type of hardware currently still commonly used in a server environment. It's also the only system I currently have available to perform such evaluations.

Vendor: VA Linux
Processor: (2) Intel Pentium IIIs at 600 MHz, 256 KB cache
Motherboard: Intel L440GX+
RAM: 512 MB PC133 ECC
DISK: (1) 9 GB Maxtor SCSI LVD 10,000 RPM
SCSI Controller: Adaptec AIC-7896 Dual Channel
Video: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 2 MB RAM

Installation

Installation was fairly straightforward. It's a text-based installation, and while not as fancy as the newer graphical-based installations, it was still fully functional. UnixWare had no problem recognizing any of my hardware, and installed the drivers automatically.

The only real difference from most installations, including a recent Solaris installation I performed, was the prompting for a license key. If you lack a license key, you can defer entering one in favor of an evaluation license which is good for 60 days. I didn't have a license key, so I opted for the evaluation license. It took about 20 minutes to get the first CD loaded, and then prompted me for a reboot.

After the system rebooted, the installation continues by asking to insert each CD (there were 5), and prompting for which packages on the CDs I'd like to install. This was very different than the usual "pick what packages you want to install, and I'll figure out which CDs you need" method more commonly used by installers. This was much more time consuming, and it required a much higher level of interaction.

The packages on these install CDs had their own very unique install scripts, and there were additional license keys required for several of the portions, including the NeTraverse Merge, ReliantHA Host Monitoring Software, and others. It seemed a bit disjointed and patched-together.

You can defer going through the other CDs which is what I'd recommend as it saves quite a bit of time. UnixWare and most of what you need comes on the first disk and installs in about 20 minutes. You can go back and install the other packages later if necessary.

Despite using a dual-processor system, SMP support is a licensed feature, so this installation only recognized one of the two processors.
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After one of the most intensive periods of development in Slackware's history, the long awaited stable release of Slackware 13.0 is ready. This release brings with it many major changes since Slackware 12.2, including a completely reworked collection of X packages (a configuration file for X is no longer needed in most cases), major upgrades to the desktop environments (KDE version 4.2.4 and Xfce version 4.6.1), a new .txz package format with much better compression, and other upgrades all around -- to the development system, network services, libraries, and major applications like Firefox and Thunderbird. We think you'll agree that this version of Slackware was worth the wait. Also, this is the first release of Slackware with native support for the 64-bit x86_64 architecture! Major kudos to Eric Hameleers for all of his work, especially on the 64-bit port.

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