Planet Sabayon Linux

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but Summer is here, time to get outside and enjoy it too.

Sabayon Linux 3.5-R1 is under way for the core-beta team and getting closer to a final release of 3.5. Not a lot of reports have come in yet from the beta team, but we did run into a couple issues right off the bat and lxnay is on the case via our reports. 3.5 is probably going to be the best release to date. The installer in 3.5 gives you way more control. There will be no room to complain about too much stuff being installed now. Select your desktop and than use the individual package selection to choose what you want. You still have the option to use the core install to basically build from CLI for the real gurus. The inclusion of Entropy package manager is a dream come true for many. The documentation on it is still a bit sketchy as it is still in beta and keeps on getting better each time lxnay works on it. I hadn’t tried Entropy in several months, only when it was first introduced and I did not care for it. Since than it has improved greatly and now even has a GUI called Spritz and has a tray notification of when new updates are available. I should mention that Entropy is the binary side of Sabayon Linux. This means you do not have to compile your packages and they will install much faster. You don’t have to worry about dependencies and libraries going missing as Entropy has intelligence to maintain your complete system. Don’t get me wrong tho, the user can still create a mock if they are not paying attention. This is just common sense with anything and so many new users need to learn the system.

Many of you have already seen the new artwork for 3.5 through the update process. It’s a love hate thing from what I am seeing.  People either love it or absolutely hate it. IMHO Sabayon Linux artwork for the past two releases now are over done with same color. There is no contrast/accents and all blends together making it difficult to see things. Last theme was red on red and now we have blue on blue. You have to admit tho, the blue is a lot easier on the eyes than the red. I agree it needs improvement and we need themes to be able to satisfy everyone.

There has been a discussion in irc a couple times about getting various people to contribute artwork and start a community art repo that offers various themes. It would be nice to see the community to become more involved. We have over the last month or so gained a few more people in helping with maintaining and coding. I do hope in time we see more and more devs coming aboard. I think with 3.5 release the Gentoo community will have to admit that Sabayon Linux is not a leech and is a very serious distro that helps benefit Gentoo. I see more and more Gentoo users giving Sabayon Linux a try all the time.

Anyway, we are expecting a 3.5-R2 and if no problems, I would expect the final.