Planet Sabayon Linux

With the launch of the miniEdition, we started to (quite) silently ship a small emerge wrapper called “binmerge” that interfaces to our Alpha release Binary Hosting. Now, I’ve just finished the Activator code section that manages the syncronization between the Entropy locally built binaries and the mirrors. But it’s not the only thing that happened this week to the sources:

• Enzyme is now able to be easily interfaced to a distcc infrastructure (I am happy to compile Qt 3.3.8 in 5 minutes) and supports add/remove, enable/disable, show options
• Enzyme is now able to search packages inside the portage tree and actually takes 1/8 of the time if compared to the classical “emerge -s”
• Enzyme now supports the Portage ever seen option “–skip=N”, the successor of –skipfirst
• Activator now supports the lock/unlock functions for the metadata database, including the option to only lock/unlock the download of data by the future clients
• Activator now supports the visualization of the lock status of the databases
• Activator now supports –ask and –pretend for the packages tool

The amazing thing is that I developed all the infrastructure for the maximum flexibility and speed. I think that I still need a month to stabilize all the new code and then, we can start to talk about a binary packages client. I can’t wait !

Hi guys, I just want to drop a note about the miniEditions release plan. If all goes well… they will be released today ! About the DVD Edition, we’ve already prepared the 3.3.1 bugfix version. So, stay tuned!

Ok guys our binhost is completing the upload…the 3.3 mini edition releases just need to be tested a bit more and will be out soon avariable to you

ok we’ve made the first build and looking for what we can put in… aaaaaaaandddddddd…..anddddddddddddddddd….there will be a first “ALPHA TRY” for binary package…..I’ll try to explain better…you install the mini on the hd….then you choose from a list of packages avariable (for now only what’s in 3.3 dvd) to install it with a simple wrapper for emerge that automatically points to our binhost and gets what you want without compiling time…it’s gross…but it should be nice for those who don’t like to have their pc busy compiling for days, and for those who like SL but don’t want all the stuff inside the dvd…just an internet connection…and you’ll have what you need at once
do you like the idea????
Let me know

Wow, with the release of 3.3 the number of posts in a day have climbed to the highest ever.  It’s tough to keep up and it’s great seeing everyone helping each other out with the various issues.  I’m kinda disappointed in seeing people fussing that they can’t download it fast enough.  What does it matter when in the end you get it?  These people never would of survived the dial-up days where it took 20 minutes to download a couple megabytes.  The announcement also gave alternative ways to download or order a dvd, but it seems some are still ungrateful.  The biggest thing I am seeing people struggle with is screen resolution not being detected.

IRC is holding it’s own, it would be nice if more people would jump in there from time to time and hang out.  Lots of great helpers and you can learn so much just from watching others help others.  Stop in and say hello!

The mini edition will be a most welcomed edition by many as it has been request several times since the DVD has been released.  Entropy is another often request for a time frame of release.  Personally I have no interest in binaries, which most people should know by now, but I think it is a great addition to SL as an option for people to use.   It will make SL stand out from the other distros, but I will still compile!

Happy Compiling People!!

It seems that we’ve been always ignored by those guys… Don’t ask me why, I don’t know. But the facts are that we’re the 8th Linux distrubution on the planet Earth accordingly to the Distrowatch Ranking. So, who cares?

Another funny thing that I could say is about Digg.com… My God, look at their Linux/Unix section, it’s barely an Ubuntu Ad. Ubuntu makes a fart, and they have the front page, Ubuntu pisses, and they have the front page. It’s quite annoying… And NO, I won’t talk this time about the inability to mount a network file system with their LiveCD…

Oh I forgot that we don’t live in a real democratic world… whoops! But really and again, who cares?

Uhm… erm… another question?

Talking with fabio in those days, we agreed that since we want sabayon to be the best distro on the market, it would be nice to open beta testing to everyone interested.
It would also be nice to to give common users the possibility of trying it too on RC releases (only on torrents).
Let us know what you think about it….of course we want your feedback before deciding on something so important for our beloved Sabayon

Hi all, today we’ve started to fork 3.3 release to create the miniEditions. We hope/want to complete all the things in a week. It’s very hard, but we’ve a very limited time since I really want to focus on the development of Entropy. The Next One Big Thing.

No further changes will be made to the features list apart from the inclusion of Beryl 0.2.0 and some fixes on the Installer.  So, keep an eye here for more news about minis.

I’ve been with sabayon since a year, I tried it by chance, but then I really liked it, and from there I asked to become a beta tester, I still fail understanding how I became a dev, because I always tried to keep a low profile, to avoid been involved too much and while working on 3.2 I was asked to help and since I was really fond of this linux os I felt like I wanted to help as much as I could. Now I helped Fabio with 3.3 and you cannot imagine how nice is to look at people say “WOW I like it…WOW it’s great” you feel satisfied because your hard work is now appreciated, I can understand finally how Fabio feels….Tired…but Happy!!!

Thanks Fabio to let me have this opportunity to show my abilites….

3.3 release left our beta testing stage some days ago, and now it’s time to rest a little bit. Enjoy the fruits of 3 months of sacrifices, of sadness but even happiness.

I don’t know if You, dad, can see me from the sky, but I’m sure that you would be happy of the things I’m doing. One day I’ll fly beside you again, we’ll share the same anger and the different points of view that we were subjected since two months ago.

It would have been so easy for you to continue to be here even now, but you decided that other things were more important than the simplest ones. But hey, who does not make mistakes?

I made mistakes, so you did. But that’s life. You taught me how to live, I saw in your eyes how people could be sneaky bastards, how lies were the things that you had to support every day, in your office, where your young son worked since a year ago. I know what you would like to do now, and I’ll try to do my best to satisfy you.

So, my old Boss, yes you, the one that the last summer, told me that I should always try to find compromises, but I’m not that kind of man; all the things I’m doing are dedicated to you. Be happy, now you can relax. I don’t have all the experience that you had but, I’ll learn from my mistakes.

Happy 3.3 dad! …and happy birthday! Yes, I’m a little bit late, but hey, you shouldn’t matter that much.

Now, it’s time to head back into the Entropy development