Planet Sabayon Linux

If you have looked at portage (2.2rc2) lately you will have noticed some nice new things:

–jobs JOBS
Specifies the number of packages to build simultaneously.
Also see the related –load-average option.

–keep-going
Continue as much as possible after an error. When an error
occurs, dependencies are recalculated for remaining packages
and any with unsatisfied dependencies are automatically
dropped. Also see the related –skipfirst option.

–load-average LOAD
Specifies that no new builds should be started if there are
other builds running and the load average is at least LOAD (a
floating-point number). This option is recommended for use in
combination with –jobs in order to avoid excess load. See
make(1) for information about analogous options that should
be configured via MAKEOPTS in make.conf(5).

Interesting blog post with more info.

So how about that?  So many people are too busy trying to bury and put a headstone on gentoo that they are not seeing that Gentoo is a live and well.  Imagine that! Even through the so called turmoil the media was drumming up, portage was active.  People complain that the devs aren’t communicating, but it takes two to complete this process.  A gentoo dev isn’t going to come to your house and personally tell you what is going on.  The user has to take some initiative and look at the mailing lists that are available, even gentoo planet and gentoo universe.  I wish I had a dollar for everytime I heard gentoo was done from someone.

You can get the the iso here

Made a more stable modular system with my devel package.
Removed most of 02-apps module packages. I did this for saving space.
Using block size 128kb now instead of 64kb.

I downloaded and gave this a spin and I love it. I compare this to the Sabayon Linux POD and wish the POD could be as good as Arch-live. It offers multiple desktops like xfce, gnome, awesome, e16, e17, openbox, etc… I ran it for 2 hours and it was solid. If you are familiar with SLAX and modules, well this works like that also. godane has modules on his website, like compiz that you can download and add. This cd can be useful to anyone with the options it has. The only thing I didn’t care for was the new background image.

He is looking at doing an ultimate edition that would be around 1.4GB in size with an installer. I told him IMHO that it wasn’t needed as most people tend to want a minimal install and build to their needs. This cd gets people up and running quickly with an Arch Linux base. I think it could help the community grow even more if people had this cd to try arch linux out. With pacman available you can also use that and install. CD didn’t have weechat so I pacman -Sy and than pacman -S weechat and I am in irc within minutes.

I highly recommend people to give this a try. You can follow along with godan’s blog development too. If anyone can help him with a mirror, drop him a line and help him out.

So 3.5 mini comes out and it’s called POD. Don’t ask me why it’s called that, I’ve never understood any of the naming conventions used yet. All it seems to do is cause mass confusion and send people asking support the same questions over and over.

Anyway, I gave the x86 & x86_64 both a try and they are very minimal to say the least. It boots straight up into XFCE desktop very quickly. You can start Compiz-Fusion up manually and still have your 3D desktop. This definitely was made to be just used with entropy package manager.

• Note: if you want to use Portage instead of Entropy, you have to download one of the two files below, depending on your chosen architecture:
  - Sabayon Pod x86 3.5 Portage db
  - Sabayon Pod x86-64 3.5 Portage db
  and unpack them to /var/db/pkg

I needed packages in portage as the package in entropy were old so I went out and tried emerging things and soon ran into major problems. I soon discovered there is more missing that I thought and was quite surprised. So I had to:

• equo install layman libtool linux-sabayon gcc linux-headers glibc
• emerge –sync && layman -S
• emerge portage

I didn’t even bother to look at the USE flags but apparently there is some missing:

jpeg ldap spell fam vorbis gstreamer encode mpeg truetype mad xml mikmod xv device-mapper

So you might want to toss them in also. IMHO I think the mini should of been portage ready as entropy isn’t as vast as portage and since the mini is mini, it needs stuff. I also noticed when I did:

• equo database gentoosync

Entropy wanted to add in every package that I had told the installer not too during install, so apparently the world file needs a cleaning after install. This has been an issue with past release too.

Once you get past that, you are ready to rock and roll with portage. I installed latest awesome window manager, set up LAMP and everything is solid and I am bloat free. I did this on a old PIII btw.

Have you ever dreamed a Sabayon that fits on your small hard drive, a Sabayon that is smart, lightweight and ready to be filled in with the applications YOU want? On a 700MB CD also? Here it is my friend! It’s called “Pod” and it’s just like a Mini Edition, but with XFCE 4.4.2 in it and based on Sabayon Linux 3.5.

Distribution updates since Sabayon Linux 3.5
• Entropy 0.15.24.1 featuring some bug fixes and the Spritz/Notification Applet split
• Sabayon Linux Installer fixes:
  - updated dmraid library
  - misc. bug fixes
• Note: if you want to use Portage instead of Entropy, you have to download one of the two files below, depending on your chosen architecture:
  - Sabayon Pod x86 3.5 Portage db
  - Sabayon Pod x86-64 3.5 Portage db
  and unpack them to /var/db/pkg

Resources for Sabayon Pod 3.5:

PLEASE - GIVE BACK A DONATION TO US
- PayPal Donation Page
##### If you would like to support our Project, please consider to download or purchase a DVD from here:
- The Linux Store recommended
- On-Disk.com

Download Mirrors:

• Official Mirrors Page

  Misc:

• Sabayon Pod x86 3.5 Linux kernel configuration
• Sabayon Pod x86-64 3.5 Linux kernel configuration
• Sabayon Pod x86 3.5 Package list
• Sabayon Pod x86-64 3.5 Package list
• Extra documentation

Important Notes:
• This distribution contains libdvdcss look here if you live in the U.S. !.
• Trademarks are property of their respective owners, everywhere.

On behalf of Sabayon’s development team, we would like to thank you for your patience and your support and please don’t forget to support us back.

Source: Sabayon’s forum.

Unless you live under a rock,  3.5 has been released.  I have to say that it is one of the best releases we have ever had.  Besides all of Fabio’s hard work, the people from the community that beta tested and gave feedback helped find a lot of bugs, which in turned helped in making this great release.  It takes a lot of time and effort to help beta test a product and this was a lengthy beta test run.  Give yourself a pat on the back for helping mold 3.5.  Thanks!

Having a community builds a distro and is just as important as developers.  A distro can’t survive without either or.  We are still interested in hearing from people with:

• A strong knowledge of Sabayon Linux
• A strong knowledge of Linux/Gentoo
• A strong knowledge of Programming
• People with Artistic talents
• Time to Give to the Project

You can join the Developers Mailing List and drop a line introducing yourself and experiences.  Please keep in mind that we are looking for serious offers here.

Thanks to the community members once again!

Security is the most important thing in our lives, to this end, a lot of tools and algorithms has been created, tools allowing you to encrypt your data. In this article I will provide details on the 2 most commonly used tools/algorithm for data protection, GnuPG and LUKS.

In this article, I will teach you how to use both tools in a different situations, exploring many useful situations… Once you’re done, you will be able to protect and keep your data safe and secured…

Index
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: GnuPG Tutorial
Page 3: Luks Tutorial

It’s very important, when you are choosing an important password, to choose it well, always mix letters ( lower AND upper ), numbers and characters… A week password can be guessed via dictionary attack, like `home` or `computer` etc… A strong password can never be guessed via dictionary attack, ex: `]RmXpEB=1&` or `rl*~V3nM"S` …

I agree that random passwords are very hard to remember, but it’s better safe than sorry right ? Anyway you might think I thought of that password, well guess again

To generate a random, yet powerful, password I use apg it’s a small program that generates passwords, you can request both pronounceable and random passwords.. here some examples:
Generate an 8 to 10 chars long, pronounceable passwords
$ apg -a 0 -m 8 -x 10
Dabfiecaf
cebfaysHey
hivjebDoj
Kaneisht2
FiwauHyk
NiwryinkEp


Generate 15, 5 to 10 chars long, random passwords
$ apg -a 1 -m 5 -x 10 -n 15
y=/y}Ue
U^hV;DX
Y|'q@PWU}
Iz?J[M\{:
z0)g(3?bR[
W3'(PQ}8.
/]eb:]VkU
num)bQ
|q&Z6:)d5
I()jhl?I
0′[Pc1″<4
e1,`L”
WAU\ %o+n1+ 9pIs'


Password Strength
To check the strengh of your password, you can use Password checker by Microsoft.com or this small Java program

Good Luck

We are proud to announce the release of Sabayon 3.5 Final

codename: Ibex Poacher

Distribution Features, Updates, Changes since 3.4

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 both 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.

Known issues:
• Ath5k wireless driver doesn’t support EeePC yet, please use ndiswrapper.

Resources for Sabayon Linux 3.5 Stable:

PLEASE - GIVE BACK A DONATION TO US
- PayPal Donation Page
##### If you would like to support our Project, please consider to download or purchase a DVD from here:
- The Linux Store recommended
- On-Disk.com

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4270605 : x86
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1556259 : x86
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4270607 : x86_64
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1556264 : x86_64

ISO - Torrents (Preferred way):

• SabayonLinux x86 3.5 torrent file
• SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 torrent file
• SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (thepiratebay.org)
• SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (thepiratebay.org)
• SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (mininova.org)
• SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (mininova.org)
• SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Torrent (linuxtracker.org)
• SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Torrent download (inuxtracker.org)
  Download Mirrors:
• Official Mirrors Page

  Misc:

• Sabayon Linux x86 3.5 md5 hash
• Sabayon Linux x86_64 3.5 md5 hash
• Sabayon Linux x86 3.5 Linux kernel configuration
• Sabayon Linux x86-64 3.5 Linux kernel configuration
• SabayonLinux x86 3.5 Package list
• SabayonLinux x86-64 3.5 Package list
• Extra documentation

Important Notes:
• This distribution contains libdvdcss look here if you live in the U.S. !.
• This distribution contains proprietary and non-GPL softwares too (like from NVIDIA, ATI, Google, etc). Before running them, be sure to read their license and agree with that, otherwise, just remove those applications. To run SabayonLinux without Proprietary drivers, just use “noproprietary” boot flag.
• When you exit Sauerbraten or Nexuiz your Computer will shut down automatically.
• Trademarks are property of their respective owners, everywhere.

Closing:
On behalf of Sabayon’s development team, we would like to thank you for your patience and your support and please don’t forget to support us back.

Source: Original post on Sabayon Linux Forums.

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It’s out! Joost, where’s the holy BBQ!? Get some beer also!

evidence: here.