Sabayon

After having gone through the installation of many distros, Sabayon had little new to offer. The Kubuntu installation is what comes to mind first. Except for the blood red theme, everything else is the same. The Live CD loaded without glitch.
While installing on the hard disk, Sabayon has a few issues. For one, it will tell you that a 5.8 GB partition is inadequate. 5.8GB is a significant size, so the warning seems a bit audacious. Probably, it is the same warning that is used in the DVD version of Sabayon where it holds true. Nonetheless, the installation proceeded smoothly, with enough space left in the 5 GB partition I had chosen.
Post installation, the blood red theme is too eye catching to replace. "Where art meets inspiration" and a three digit/toe footprint are the motifs of Sabayon.
It lacks the ease of mounting hard disks that PC Linux has. In PC Linux, the partition tool also allows mounting with the ease of a few clicks. In Sabayon, the need to access the terminal to do the same thing is a put off. Ofcourse, one could say that it is easier to just edit the fstab file, but this has a major drawback. Which is that any problems in the partitions mentioned in fstab will cause the system to not boot even if the boot partition is "clean". This situation has to be avoided at all costs.
Sabayon also lacks Openoffice. I think this was also seen in the Fedora distro, and some others. Why would Openoffice be overlooked is beyond me.
Sabayon also insists on 6 letter passwords, for the root as well as the user accounts. BAD. Sabayon also puts up a second taskbar on the top. This is a recurring design theme in many distros, and I think this makes it evident that Linux is meant for large screens. On the most widepsread 15" screen a second taskbar is a waste of space.
The menus are fuller than that seen PC Linux and Opensuse, but not as much as seen in Knoppix.
The mouse cursor is a bit too bloated to my taste, but there are no choices.

Sabayon stands apart for the colour theme. The novelty will wear off soon.