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 acircular 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 appearuddy 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 reconfiguruddy 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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