Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08

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Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08

We take a look at Sabayon 9, is this distro a real challenge to Arch Linux? Or just a re-skinned distro spin. Tune in to find out!

Plus: More steam on Linux rumors, we put on our Kickstarter hater pants!

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Sabayon 9 Review:

More and more of the folks we consider trend setters in our audience have begun singing the praises of Sabayon

Install:
  • The installer has a lot of powerful options, though the UI is not awesome.
  • The install process seems fairly easy, you’d never realize this was Gentoo.
General use:
  • Login screen is sliiiick
  • Update manager is really cool, showing the icon, name, and description of each package being updated.
  • Rigo Application Browser is simple, but exposes solid nerd features.
    • Rigo shows helpful warnings from the repo
  • Entropy is the package manager.
  • equo is the command line package manager that uses binaries. You can also use emerge, but keep them in sync.
  • Picking great default apps is BACK!
    • Chrome
    • Clementine
    • VLC for Media Playback
    • Great KDE Menu organization
    • God Dammit I love the terminal defaults
  • ZFS on Gentoo/Sabayon

Matt’s Howto:

Presented by: System76

1) Install Teeworlds. This is easy to do, just install it from the software center or via apt-get.

2) Use Audacity to take an existing MP3 and convert it into a wav file, via the ‘export to’ option. You will name the new wav file music_menu.wav as this is the file we’ll be working with.

3) Next, open up a terminal window and paste in the following:
sudo apt-get install wavpack

4) Assuming your wav file is saved to your Desktop, use the following comanand to convert the wav file into a wv file, so it works with the game.

cd Desktop

(In a single line in the terminal, space between -o and /home)
wavpack /home/$USER/Desktop/music_menu.wav -o /home/$USER/Desktop/music_menu.wv

5) With the new wv file created, you can now move the file into the appropriate directory.

sudo mv music_menu.wv /usr/share/games/teeworlds/data/audio/music_menu.wv

6) After closing the terminal, start the Teeworlds game and the music you hear, should be the same as the mp3 you converted into a wav, and then into a wv file.

Heads up — I’ve read you can export to wv from Audacity, however I’ve had no luck with it personally — so try this approach instead.

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  • kvv

    Woah Bryan, ease up on that meth.

  • Gentoo4Life

    I stopped listening after the intro where Bryan said he was reviewing suh–BOI–yun 9. What?! We’ve come to expect Chris to badly mispronounce words…heck, it’s part of his charm. But Bryan, we expect better from you.

  • bananaoomarang

    Just saying that Ouya has some reputable people behind it, the lead was responsible for Jawbone Jambox and OLPC, both highly successful projects. Also, all those games run on Android, so they’d run on this!

  • yeehaw

    ” But Bryan, we expect better from you.”

    Yeah! We expect you to do a pole dance in a thong!

  • Asedsa

    Huge journalistic fail… questioning the Valve on Linux reporting when Gabe Newell, the head honcho of Valve has already said on the record they are working on Linux in a video interview. The interview was posted on OMGUbuntu so you two have no excuse not to have seen it.
    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/valves-gabe-newell-reiterates-steam-linux-support

  • ZekThePenguin

    LOL the OpenSuse icon on Bryan’s shirt is being picked up as greenscreen, so the chameleon is really blending in!

  • ChrisLAS

    Are you talking about the video of Gabe? The one we played on the live stream?
    Cuz in that. Gabe’s exact words:
    “We are talking about our Linux support”
    RIGHT after he said
    “we are showing our ten foot experience”.
    To both Bryan and I, that does not read “We are making Steam for Linux” to us. If anything, I think it strengthens the set-top box rumors.
    Anyone else watching live can feel free to chime in on the chat room’s reaction to that video.

  • ChrisLAS

    Good points!

  • Fil

    The screenshot made Brian look like a serial rapist XD

  • bananaoomarang

    Ignore the second one, I think you got that in the show and, you’re right, the developers would have to be on board to port it over to a new resolution/control scheme!

  • itl

    Where to use Sabayon KDE? Use it to replace the Open SUSE install. Last time I tried SUSE some of the apps I use weren’t in the repositories, and for others the install failed with an error message. Installing SUSE is an awkward two step affair, and the default color scheme is hideous. Sabayon is miles ahead.

  • Sto

    Omg where is stoked we are nothing without it omgggghhh

  • http://profiles.google.com/webmaster1989 Melroy van den Berg

    Welcome back Bryan

  • http://profiles.google.com/webmaster1989 Melroy van den Berg

    Again.. about the Linux Steam Client is CONFIRMED. It is NOT a rumor anymore.

    I’ll quote my mailing with Gabe:

    Hi Gabe,

    There are so many rumors about a Steam client for GNU/Linux. Like there will be a Linux Steam Client before the end of this year?
    Can you confirm this?

    Thanks for answering me!

    Kind regards,

    Melroy van den Berg

    Gabe Newell gaben@valvesoftware.com 11-jun.

    Yes.

  • http://profiles.google.com/webmaster1989 Melroy van den Berg

    Wow ahah Den Bosch train station again :D You continue to surprise me.

  • Exeleration-G

    Where?

  • Exeleration-G

    Bryan, I started watching LAS because, as someone else said,

  • Mirza Dervišević
  • Daiben

    Why is their no .ogg file anymore???

  • tuxmatt

    can you guys do me a fav and say something about my website i have made for new people running linux i watch your shows everytime i get view my website and see what you guys think about it http://www.gnulinuxsupport.com thanks