Software update: Sabayon Linux 3.5 stable

Sabayon Linux, named after the Italian zabaglionedessert, is a very comprehensive Linux distribution that descends from Gentoo Linux. The installation uses compiled packages, but it is also possible to run Gentoo’s Portage to install packages. Sabayon Linux is equipped with recent versions of KDE, Gnome, Firefox, Openoffice and Beryl, among others, but non-open source programs are also present, such as ATI Radeon and nVidia Geforce drivers and a demo of Quake 4. Due to the huge collection of applications that are included, the downloads that can be downloaded are a thick 3.9 GB and a full installation requires at least 8 GB of disk space. For more information, we refer you to this pageand on this page several screenshots can be viewed. The developers have released version 3.5 with the following announcement:

Distribution Features, Updates, Changes since 3.4

• Music by: Rob Costlow – Meant to Be (from here)
• Screenshots on our wiki: Visual Tour Part 1 – Visual Tour Part 2.
• Linux Kernel 2.6.25.9 with extended Wireless, Laptop (UMPC, like EeePC), Filesystem (unionfs, aufs, squashfs, ext4, NTFS-3g) support
• Really fast boot time (around 30 seconds, depending on your Computer)
• Out-Of-The-Box hardware detection, Input devices, GPUs, wireless, in no time!
• Outstanding easy-to-setup 3D Desktop, Gaming support, thanks to Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 and a set of free Top-Tier Games included or available (Sauerbraten, Second Life!, Nexuiz, Quake4, Warsow, Savage, Wesnoth)
  • AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.6
  • NVIDIA: 173.14.05, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 – automatic selection
  • X.Org Server 1.4.2 (7.3), automatic input devices configuration through HAL
• Incredible set of ready-to-use applications and Desktop Environments:
  • KDE 3.5.9 (KDE 4.0.5 available for download)
  • GNOME 2.22.2
  • XFCE 4.4.2
  • Flux box 1.0
  • OpenOffice 2.4
  • Firefox 3.0
  • aMule 2.2.0
  • Wine 1.1.0
  • Google Earth 4.2 and Picasa 2.7
  • Flash 9
  • Java 1.6 (IcedTea)
  • Innotek VirtualBox 1.5
• Entropy 0.15.23.7: defining the “software2.0” concept (read our current/future development plan and statussponsored by the NLnet Foundation)
  • This is the Cool, Exclusive, Fast, User-oriented, Sabayon Linux Package Manager, Portage compatible, written from scratch
  • Featuring “equo” as Textual front end
  • Featuring “Spritz” as Graphical front-end (based on YumEx)
  • Featuring a notification applet front-end to keep your system up-to-date (based on RHN-Applet)
  • Featuring an Online Packages Browser at packages.sabayonlinux.org
  • Featuring “Community Repositories” support, every user will be able to create his/her own repository in less than 15 minutes
  • Featuring Gentoo Linux Security Advisories support, enabling you to easily and quickly get informed about security threats and their fixes/package updates
  • Completely internationalized into your language (5 languages ​​currently supported), help us!
  • Around 7500 applications available for buth 32 and 64bit Computers
  • Multiple branches support, wanna stick with 3.5 during the 4.0 development? Don’t worry!
  • Currently at about 40000 lines of code, and growing
  • No more headaches to keep your System updated, We do it for You! Two clicks or a few keystrokes, this is what you just need.
  • Completely based on Open Source technologies (Python, SQLite, MySQL, OpenSSL, Urwid, gzip), source code available at svn.sabayonlinux.org
  • One of the first Gentoo-based Linux distribution actively supporting source and binary packages.
• Sabayon Linux Installer:
  • Now with a refreshed and more polished look
  • Featuring the following installation profiles:
    • KDE 3.5.9
    • GNOME 2.22.2
    • XFCE 4.4.2
    • Flux box 1.0
    • UMPC (really tight setup, featuring XFCE)
    • Core (server oriented setup)
    • Featuring a Custom Packages Selector, to allow tweaking your installation to death
  • Improved Software RAID, Fake RAID and Windows detection
  • Intense bug fixing, most of the code has been rewritten from scratch to reduce system libraries dependency
  • Fully integrated with the Entropy subsystem
• Media Center functionalities:
  • GeeXbox 1.1 devel included
  • Elisa Media Center 0.3.5
• From future:
  • KDE 4.1 ready!
  • Sabayon Linux 4.0 upgrade ready!
  • EeePC 10xxx ready!

Known issue:

• Ath5k wireless driver doesn’t support EeePC yet, please use ndiswrapper.

Important Notes:

• This distribution contains libdvdcss look here if you live in the US!.
• This distribution contains proprietary and non-GPL softwares too (like from NVIDIA, ATI, Google, etc). Before running them, be sure to read their license and agree with that, otherwise, just remove those applications. To run SabayonLinux without Proprietary drivers, just use “noproprietary” boot flag.
• When you exit Sauerbraten or Nexuiz your Computer will shut down automatically.
• Trademarks are property of their respective owners, everywhere.

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