Starting from April 1st, I will have to find new ways to make a living (other projects I’m currently working on are ending), that’s the good part of being a freelance IT software programmer and researcher. If there’s somebody interested in hiring me, drop me an email 
As you all may have seen, I’ve been really busy lately producing some very awaited new releases together with our small but powerful development team.
So, we’re close to 2010 and Entropy is about to celebrate its third birthday. It’s been a very long road, full of obstacles but hey, we’re getting closer to 1.0! 2010 will be the year of Entropy 1.0 bringing a basic set of features and ideas tossed into the wild software jungle.
What can we all expect from Entropy 1.0 and perhaps, 1.0+? Well, first of all let’s list some features that are not yet available for public consuption which I am working on, I mean, minor and major things. Of course, everybody could read my cryptic TODO file inside the Entropy git repo, but as written, it’s cryptic because it only has to fit my purposes, not yours .
During the end of 2009, Entropy went through a lot of refactoring and speed improvement work, not yet complete though. All the core modules have been redesigned, a lot of code (around 2 millions of line changes, I’m close to the 5000th commit) has been rewritten with beauty, coolness and ZOMG in mind. Starting from the latest entropy.graph code to entropy.cache (Entropy async on-disk cacher there). Even the equo old and dusty codebase got a rewrite. The only parts missing are Sulfur (usability & speed), entropy.client and entropy.server modules, which are set for rewrite during Entropy 0.99.40 development cycle (we’re at 0.99.19 now, getting closer to the 0.99.20 milestone).
During Christmas holidays, while studying Calculus and Algebra for January exams spin, I am focusing on adding GPG support to Entropy, which is almost complete already, I need to commit some last bits to connect my newly created entropy.security.Repository class to the rest of the world . So yeah, another cool feature is coming to town! For the paranoid part of you!
A few lines above I mentioned Sulfur, what is going to happen in 2010? Let me tell you in a few words, bring {Google Market, Apple AppStore, Nokia Ovi, You-Name-It} apps design and concept to the Linux Desktop, defining a protocol for producing $HOME resident applications and a service platform hosted @sabayon.org.
I spent 3 years to make an almost perfect rocket-science-ready package manager, now it’s time to innovate (funds apart).
Finally Fabio gave me the pics of the server, and finally I’ve found some time to publish those pics! As we said on the website, thanks to your donations, the end of the fundraiser allowed us to buy the new servers. And now you can see how we spend your money to give you a better service and the best linux distro ever!
With the money (3000 €) we bought and installed two servers:
And thank to the University of Milan – D.I.S.C.O. Department for giving us the housing of the WWW Server (where Fabio took the pics).
Unluckily, Fabio got the pics with the cellphone, and it’s better as developer than as a photographer. Noone is perfect! Here comes the pics!
First of all, Fabio (on the right), Michele (on the left) and the servers:
Next is a overview of the Server Rack:
And finally a detail of the WWW Server:
Finally I want to say that Sabayon Staff thanks you all again for your support and your donations. You can keep donating to Sabayon if you want to help us improve this distro more and more. And stay tuned, 5.1 will come very soon!
Dedicated to those who like order over chaos, to those who like simplicity over complexity, to those who think that less is more, to those that just want more for less. Sabayon 4.1 will catch you, based on Sabayon 4 LiteMCE, represent what can be the future of our Operating System: just the best of the Out-Of-The-Box, GNOME, multimedia applications and nothing more than what you need for your daily tasks, but what about your free time? We’ve got it. XBMC (formerly known as Xbox Media Center) 8.10 is what you’ve ever wanted to build up a fantastic HTPC or Internet Multimedia Box, so what’s better than having it ready to use? Show off the new Sabayon Linux to your friends, they have no more excuses to not try it!
What are you waiting for, scroll down and select your download!
Meanwhile read the changes and watch the guided tour (thanks Wolfden):
Take a Tour – Booting
Take a Tour – Installer
Distribution Features:
* Based on Sabayon Linux 4 LiteMCE
* Halved Hard Disk footprint, <2GB ISO image
* Custom Linux Kernel 2.6.29.1
* Ext4 is now the default filesystem
* Complete GNOME 2.24 flavour (2.26 will be available through Entropy when ready)
* OpenOffice 3.0.1
* Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.8.2
* X.Org 7.4 supporting AMD and NVIDIA latest video cards
* Multimedia applications (audio, video, dvd ripping, file sharing)
* Media Center Mode, transforming your Sabayon in a complete Multimedia platform thanks to XBMC
* Entropy Package Manager 0.52.8, ready for 0.8x
* World of Goo Demo – best 2D game ever!
* Sexiest Skin ever!
Major Changes since Sabayon 4:
* Smaller disk footprint, faster load times
* Improved memory usage under GNOME
* Improved boot speed
* Improved DVD drive detection on Live boot
* Fully working PolicyKit and ConsoleKit environment
* New 2.6.29.1 Linux kernel
* NetworkManager 0.7
* Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.8.2
* GRUB now supports UUID
* Shipped with Vi (the *editor*)
* Merged all the Entropy Sabayon repository updates
* Split KDE and GNOME flavours (Sabayon 4.1 KDE will be released in one week)
* Installer now detects other Linux distributions
* Installer now defaults on ext4 on new installs
* Installer now features an improved usability and installation speed
* Fresh, unmatched artwork and skin!
Requirements
Minimum requirements:
- an i686-compatible Processor (Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron, AMD K6-2, Athlon)
- 512Mb RAM
- 10 GB of free space
- A X.Org supported 2D GPU
- a DVD reader
Optimal requirements:
- a Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or better, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better)
- 1024Mb RAM
- 32 GB of free space
- A X.Org supported 3D GPU (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA) (esp. for XBMC)
- a DVD reader
Download sources
Our Mirrors Page:
- http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mirrors
Bittorrent:
- Sabayon Linux x86 4.1 Torrent Download
- Sabayon Linux x86-64 4.1 Torrent Download
A short post to say a couple of thing.
First, HAPPY EASTER Sabayon users and fans from all the staff!
Have a good time with your family.
Second, the italian part (and not only) of the staff needs to say they feel close to the families of the victims caused by a earthquake on Monday 6th April.
The earthquake caused distruction and 294 victims in Abruzzo, in the city of L’Aquila, and thousand of injuried.
We feel close to you all and we send you our condolences throught this post. There are no words we can say to ease your pain.
We are considering to dedicate the next release, Sabayon 4.1, in memory of the victims.
As always I apologize for my bad english.
Cheers, Paolo aka AjeZ
Easter is arriving and i promised to start writing something on the blog and on the website.
First thing i want to say is that Fabio is still with us, Joost’s April fool has been funny to read. (joost, STFU now till next year!)
I’m used to be connected to the Irc #sabayon channel the more often I can, but I noticed that often is silent, but that maybe because I’m there when users are working/studying.
I think the Irc is an important way to let us (staff) and you (users) to communicate and help togheter:
- we help you to fix your problems and LEARN something new about linux
- you help us to know what issues are present on our release so we can try to fix those in future releases, or help other users to fix the same problems.
Today happened exactly this, a guy in the channel asked how to fix a problem, we found that sabayon were missing something and we fixed that on real time. (Many thanks)
We have a lot of tools to receive your feedback but i think that “talking” is the better way.
And remember to be patient, the staff on IRC has other thousand things to do, so dont mess with us if u don’t have an answer quickly, we do our best.
AND PLEASE : read the channel topic BEFORE posting. And don’t ask if u can ask, just do it.
We have some rules to be followed on Irc to give you the best experience and don’t let staff to become mad!
We are waiting for you on IRC! There is also a #sabayon-social chan to let u talk about anything else (puters, cars, girls, etc…) without breaking balls on the support channel. So, use it!
About Sabayon 4.1 i’ll show you a little preview on what you’ll find in gnome. You should expect good news in few days. So, STAY TUNED!
4.1Gnome-RC1
PS: I’m sorry for my poor english, but here in Venice I don’t speak it often.
Today I won’t spend my always-limited-time(TM) writing about Entropy, noes, not today. Today I will write about Itsme. What is it? Something that will catch your attention more and more during the next months/years. You may wonder why, I don’t. I am just happy to be part of the team. Yeah, don’t faint! lxnay has a job, eventually! I don’t even want to talk about the implications of the Sabayon Project into the whole painting, but that’s said, something good is coming and our team is eventually moving in the right direction. Sabayon Linux 4.1 will represent our strategy change (Ian, put your digital pencil at work), being based on the LiteMCE success and probably featuring two separate releases, one for GNOME, one for KDE (4.2).
“Less is more. People want to have control over their things”
That’s (one of…) the motto. In the mean time, enjoy our new, geeky WordPress theme.
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohoooooo.
It’s out! Joost, where’s the holy BBQ!? Get some beer also!
evidence: here.
3 years. 3 candles.