Now that we released both 4.1 Gnome and KDE, we started working on next releases of Sabayon.
So we publish here the roadmap for next Sabayon releases, as we planned. As always, dates can change without notice. It’s more important for us to give you a stable release.
Stay tuned!
The Sabayon Core Staff
Well, Sabayon Linux has had the KDE and Gnome 4.1 mini dvds out for a while now. Things are rolling along still, even tho the blog has been kinda quiet. Lets see if I can pass on some useful information for yas.
One thing you will be seeing soon is a Road Map of upcoming releases. You will be able to see when to expect a new release. All I ask that people don’t come screaming cause we went past our release date. We don’t have a great track record of releasing on the day we say we are gonna. So please use the dates as a guideline of when to expect releases.
We want to work closer with gentoo devs. We have a good and healthy relationship going there and it’s a win win situation for everyone. We only want what is best for everyone.
So where is the core-cd? It’s coming, sorry it’s taking so long, but we ran into a few bumps and hopefully we can now get it going and out to you shortly. Don’t_Panic will be the one working on it, so please have some patience for him as it will be worth it.
We’ve decided to included WICD on the discs as an option now. NetworkManager will still be default, but for those that hate or have issues with NM, WICD will be there for you to use also. For me, WICD does what I want hassle free, for some they need the abilities of NM, so at least you can have a choice without having to download and transfer from another machine to get WICD.
Sabayon Linux 4.2 will be the next release, it will be just an updated system, no new options. So instead of having to download 4.1 and go through all the updates in the package manager, you will just download 4.2 and be updated to current branch 4. If you have 4.1 installed and have it world updated, you will have the exact same thing. There will be an artwork package for 4.2 with the same color schemes, just some minor changes. TheVoodoo is hammering that out as we speak.
Branch 5 will be starting in June and will contain the KDE 4.3 series. As far as I know, the branch 4 will be able to roll on to branch 5, you will just have to edit the repo config file when the time comes. More information will come out on that when it’s ready. So branch 4 will get to KDE 4.2.4 and than things will focus on branch 5.
Lots of work to be done as you can see. I also want to let everyone know that Sabayon Linux gave a slide presentation recently and you can find the English and Italian versions to view.
Well, lets see how we do with all this and we’ll keep ya updated as much as possible.