Planet Sabayon Linux

Nah, it’s just a stupid song name. Don’t worry about that. While I’m massively/actively/asdasd (Luca can understand that) working on Entropy with very nice results (apart the needed code cleanup that will take place before the first public server release), we are uploading the first Public_Beta-aware(TM), 3.4 release, tagget Loop 1. In fact, the release cycle will, from now on, follow these steps:

1. Publish beta releases, called Loop + (incr. number: Loop 1, Loop 2, and so on) on BitTorrent, xdelta included, and on a dedicated server for our Core Beta Team only. Core Beta Team: it is a selected number of people that work beside me and Luca. They get releases earlier, can report issues faster and get more attention because they know how to do things (n00bs don’t, sorry.).
2. After the Loop sequence, the new release will be published on the Official Mirrors and on BitTorrent as usual.

We decided to do 3.4 just because Entropy still needs 2-3 months of active work and polishing. So, Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop 1, will be published before the end of the week, and will contain our 2.6.21_rc5-git10 kernel release (we’ll prepare sabayon-source-2.6.21_rc6 ASAP), GNOME 2.18, VirtualBox 1.3.8, and all the fixes that would have been in 3.3.1 (never released).

Another thing that I should inform you is about my holidays! From the 16th to the 23rd of April the only thing that I will see is, sand, sea, and hopefully an amazing sunset. Yay!