Sabayon Linux 6 GNOME and KDE Released
We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 6, one of the biggest milestone in our project.
Features
- Linux Kernel 2.6.39.1 and blazing fast, yet reliable, boot
- Providing extra Server-optimized, OpenVZ-enabled, Vserver-enabled kernels in repositories
- Natively supporting btrfs filesystem
- Completely reworked artwork and boot music intro, thanks to our little Van Gogh (Ian Whyman)
- Improved theming for 16:9 and 16:10 widescreen monitors
- Transform Sabayon into an full-featured HTPC Operating System (Media Center) using XBMC
- Entropy 1.0_rc10, bringing outstanding speed and reliability. Entropy Store (Sulfur) went through a massive speed rework. Entropy Web Services foundation library has been introduced in order to support User Generated Content contributions in a more powerful way, bringing our Package Manager in the Social Internet age. Added support to delta packages downloads, parallel packages download, differential repository update through simple HTTPS protocol
- Several Sabayon Installer improvements, especially with dealing with crypt, LVM and swRAID environments
- Added a non-intrusive firewall tool called "ufw" and its frontends for GNOME and KDE
- X.Org Server updated to 1.10
- Sane Desktop Compositing now enabled by default
- Switched to IcedTea6 as bundled Java VM
- Switched to jpeg-turbo library, boosting JPEG images rendering speed
- Switched to LibreOffice 3.3.3
- Switched to Chromium/WebKit as bundled Web Browser
- Split nvidia-drivers and ati-drivers into userspace and kernel modules, improving reliability over kernel migrations
- Updated to GNOME 2.32.2 and KDE 4.6.4
- Updated to GRUB 1.99
- Introduced the "kernel-switcher" tool, to easily switch between available Sabayon Linux kernels
- Python toolchain updated to version 2.7
- Updated to GCC 4.5.2
- Dracut and Plymouth ready (expect them in Sabayon 7)
- Thousands of updates and bug fixes that flew in, during these last 4 months
- We're still here! (it's a feature), only thanks to your donations, please keep donating, donate now!
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