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J3115
July 1st, 2008, 06:52 PM
Visual Tour.
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Visual_Tour:_Part_1_Booting_Sabayon_Linux

Distribution Features, Updates, Changes since 3.4
* Music by: Rob Costlow - Meant to Be (from: http://www.jamendo.com/it/album/888)
* 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
- Fluxbox 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 status, sponsored 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? No problem!
- 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
- Fluxbox 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!