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Sabayon 3.5 Final Released

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Dark Star
Dark Star Original post #1
Jul 2, 2008 at 9:19 AM
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All 3.5 Release News Goes Here
Sabayon 3.5 [ Final Stable Release]
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Sabayon Linux uses Gentoo's Portage system for package management, and all updates and base characteristics are in synchrony with Gentoo's portage tree and other mechanisms. So, users can follow guides and articles written for Gentoo users. But "world updates" are discouraged for beginners or those new to Gentoo,
as the structure is a little different and requires a slightly different method of execution. A guide has been written by a Sabayon Linux developer on how to do global updates and recompilation of all packages.


  1. Music by: Rob Costlow - Meant to Be (from: Jamendo : Woods of Chaos)
  2. Linux Kernel 2.6.25.9 with extended Wireless, Laptop (UMPC, like EeePC), Filesystem (unionfs, aufs, squashfs, ext4, NTFS-3g) support
  3. Really fast boot time (around 30 seconds, depending on your Computer)
  4. Out-Of-The-Box hardware detection, Input devices, GPUs, wireless, in no time!
  5. 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

    1. - AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.6
    2. - NVIDIA: 173.14.05, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 - automatic selection
    3. - X.Org Server 1.4.2 (7.3), automatic input devices configuration through HAL
    1. Incredible set of ready-to-use applications and Desktop Environments:
    1. - KDE 3.5.9 (KDE 4.0.5 available for download)
    2. - GNOME 2.22.2
    3. - XFCE 4.4.2
    4. - Fluxbox 1.0
    5. - OpenOffice 2.4
    6. - Firefox 3.0
    7. - aMule 2.2.0
    8. - Wine 1.1.0
    9. - Google Earth 4.2 and Picasa 2.7
    10. - Flash 9
    11. - Java 1.6 (IcedTea)
    12. - Innotek VirtualBox 1.5
    1. Entropy 0.15.23.7: defining the "software2.0" concept ..
    1. - This is the Cool, Exclusive, Fast, User-oriented, Sabayon Linux Package Manager, Portage compatible, written from scratch
    2. - Featuring "equo" as Textual front-end
    3. - Featuring "Spritz" as Graphical front-end (based on YumEx)
    4. - Featuring a notification applet front-end to keep your system up-to-date (based on RHN-Applet)
    5. - Featuring an Online Packages Browser at packages.sabayon.org
    6. - Featuring "Community Repositories" support, every user will be able to create his/her own repository in less than 15 minutes
    7. - Featuring Gentoo Linux Security Advisories support, enabling you to easily and quickly get informed about security threats and their fixes/package updates
    8. - Completely internationalized into your language (5 languages currently supported),
    9. - Around 7500 applications available for buth 32 and 64bit Computers
    10. - Multiple branches support, wanna stick with 3.5 during the 4.0 development? No problem!
    11. - Currently at about 40000 lines of code, and growing .
    12. - 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.
    13. - Completely based on Open Source technologies (Python, SQLite, MySQL, OpenSSL, Urwid, gzip), source code available at svn.sabayon.org
    14. - One of the first Gentoo-based Linux distribution actively supporting source and binary packages.
    1. Sabayon Linux Installer:
    1. - Now with a refreshed and more polished look
    2. - Featuring the following installation profiles:
    3. - KDE 3.5.9
    4. - GNOME 2.22.2
    5. - XFCE 4.4.2
    6. - Fluxbox 1.0
    7. - UMPC (really tight setup, featuring XFCE)
    8. - Core (server-oriented setup)
    9. - Featuring a Custom Packages Selector, to allow tweaking your installation to death
    10. - Improved Software RAID, Fake RAID and Windows detection
    11. - Intense bug fixing, most of the code has been rewritten from scratch to reduce system libraries dependency
    12. - Fully integrated with the Entropy subsystem
    1. Media Center functionalities:
    1. - GeeXbox 1.1-devel included
    2. - Elisa Media Center 0.3.5
    1. From future:
    1. - KDE 4.1 ready!
    2. - Sabayon Linux 4.0 upgrade ready!
    3. - EeePC 10xxx ready!

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Download : Official Mirror Page
Torrent Links :

  1. SabayonLinux x86 3.5 torrent file
  2. SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 torrent file
  3. SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (thepiratebay.org)
  4. SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (thepiratebay.org)
  5. SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (mininova.org)
  6. SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (mininova.org)
  7. SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (linuxtracker.org)
  8. SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (inuxtracker.org)

@Mods why Bullets aren't working if I copy BB codes from another forum ?
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FilledVoid #2
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:32 AM
I tried Sabayon once. I found it to be quite nice in fact. Although I thought it would be hard to use it quite the opposite.
Pat
Pat #3
Jul 2, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Darky are you going to give it a shot ? I want to see how entropy is, compared to other package managers. That would be a make or break deal for me.

Last time I tried 3.4 its package manager sucked big time. It was too slow for my liking. Sabayon 3.5 Loop 3 dint install on my lappy. I hope this ones good enough.
Sathish
Sathish #4
Jul 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM
i have already tried sabayon Professional edition (provinded Linux For U mag.)

Good for Look and Feel..

can anyone tell about its unique package management system..?
MetalheadGautham
Jul 2, 2008 at 3:40 PM
WTF ? They give Quake4 for free ?
I am downloading it tonight then. :D
I think Sabayon is one of the best ways to experience the rich features and stability of gentoo-linux without installing gentoo itself. Too bad sabayon does not provide gentoo-BSD for us. :(
M
Jul 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Well the state of gentoo-freebsd is rather bad and gentoo-openbsd is pathetic. I so hope that someday, somehow gentoo-freebsd becomes stable enough to be used. Still hats off to the limited amount of devs for their work and the kind of help they provide.
Dark Star
Jul 2, 2008 at 9:39 PM
WTF ? They give Quake4 for free ?

No I think its a demo :p Read its written only 3 top tier game :p
RCuber
RCuber #8
Jul 2, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Looks nice.. will download it today nite.
infra_red_dude
Jul 2, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Will surely try it.. 3.4f never really worked on any of my machines. Hope this does. Don't like the blue theme tho. The darker interface was nicer.

Looks nice.. will download it today nite.
Damn.. I'm jealous of some people here :x
Faun
Faun #10
Jul 2, 2008 at 10:55 PM
^^yeah parsix has got the most decent GUI
*www.raiden.net/images/articles/parsix_1.0/Parsix submenu.png

wonder when ubuntu give away with its
RCuber
RCuber #11
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Damn.. I'm jealous of some people here :x
Jealous? .. you forgot the wifi issue in the previous release which I had? And another problem was it never used to shutdown properly (live CD) .. on restart Vista used to show BSOD :mad:. I hope these issues are fixed :?

I dont understand why Sabayon switched theme.. it was one of the best looking distro.. now it looks like any other :( ..
infra_red_dude
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:46 PM
[Offtopic]

Jealous? .. you forgot the wifi issue in the previous release which I had? And another problem was it never used to shutdown properly (live CD) .. on restart Vista used to show BSOD :mad:. I hope these issues are fixed :?
Idiot! I was talking about the 2mbps connection and downloading the ISO in one night! :D

[/Offtopic]
blueshift
blueshift #13
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:48 PM
It looks appealing!

Worth a try.
Dark Star
Dark Star #15
Jul 3, 2008 at 8:23 AM
I dont understand why Sabayon switched theme.. it was one of the best looking distro.. now it looks like any other

Maybe because of their agreement Nlnet ?