Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08
Posted on: July 15, 2012
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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!
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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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