Devilish kind of you, sir! (What is "the RT" - purely out of curiosity?)

Treat yourself to a download of Sabayon's latest - most impressive, and it'd be interesting to hear how it runs on more modern equipment.

Annoyingly, I can't get it running on VirtualBox - time to get VirtualBox onto a computer with a little more RAM, I think - or on a T22 with 256mb of RAM. In all fairness, the Sabayon site does say it needs at least 512mb.

Although the Sabayon live CD runs very "economically" where RAM is concerned, it does seem to need at least half a gig in order to get itself started. On an elderly Thinkpad T23, everything just worked straight away - including wireless, which on that machine relies on a Belkin PCMCIA card.

It's a 1.6gb download. I'm wondering whether it runs so fast because it needs to unpack less into RAM than most live CDs. Can't really afford yet another old laptop at the moment, so it might be time to bin an existing installation in order to actually install Sabayon - and see how much faster that is than the live DVD.

None of that product activation nonsense to worry about on repeated installations, after all.

I've been messing about with the Gnome edition, but hope to download the KDE - when I think to do so less than two hours before retiring for the night. Takes ages on my "up to 2mb" connection.

I'll play a bit more with it tomorrow, hopefully, and see whether I find anything to dislike...