Planet Sabayon Linux

I’ve been really busy these days, mainly working as consultant you know, but things are moving in the right direction now. Apart from the usual Entropy work, I finally had the time to rewrite Gentoo slow-as-hell Eselect OpenGL module in this way:

• I removed Portage dependency
• I embedded all the needed general purpose functions
• I avoided the usage of ldconfig (since the new tool will be used only on the Live environment, there’s no need to overload the boot procedure by regenerating ld.so.cache for just few new libraries – /usr/lib/opengl/{ati,nvidia,xorg-x11}) and used the old dear LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/env.d/o3opengl and /etc/profile.env (another dirty but powerful trick to avoid running env-update – that’s really unoptimized).

With the new tool, called opengl-activator and carried by sabayonlive-tools 1.6.0, Live boot will just take 1-2 minutes less. Yeah, MINUTES! So, all this new stuff, along with the performance improvements suggested by Daniel Robbins will be included in the upcoming 3.4F release.

Apart from that, we’re working on the miniEditions and on the new Business Editions. Please be patient.