Thread: Sabayon 6 has been released!

sabayon 6 has been released, here announcement.

we're once again here announce immediate availability of sabayon 6, 1 of biggest milestone in our project.
letting bleeding edge , reliability coexist outstanding challenge our users, our team, faced every day.
there have it, shining @ full bright, home computer, laptop , home servers.
because care our community, listen our users, consider them part of game, decided leave gnome3 out another, last, release cycle, in order let things settle down: providing broken user experience has never been in our plans.
besides, have under hood round? let's go ahead , see.



please don't forget donate here, still need support.
donations, able buy new development server, need more i/o speed now!

features

• linux kernel 2.6.39.1 , blazing fast, yet reliable, boot
• providing server-optimized, openvz-enabled, vserver-enabled kernels in repositories
• natively supporting btrfs filesystem
• completely reworked artwork , boot music intro, our little van gogh (ian whyman)
• improved theming 16:9 , 16:10 widescreen monitors
• transform sabayon full-featured htpc operating system (media center) using xbmc
• entropy 1.0_rc10, bringing outstanding speed , reliability. entropy store (sulfur) went through massive speed rework. entropy web services foundation library has been introduced in order support user generated content contributions in more powerful way, bringing our package manager in social internet age. added support delta packages downloads, parallel packages download, differential repository update through simple https protocol
• several sabayon installer improvements, dealing crypt, lvm , swraid environments
• added non-intrusive firewall tool called "ufw" , frontends gnome , kde
• x.org server updated 1.10
• sane desktop compositing enabled default
• switched icedtea6 bundled java vm
• switched jpeg-turbo library, boosting jpeg images rendering speed
• switched libreoffice 3.3.3
• switched chromium/webkit bundled web browser
• split nvidia-drivers , ati-drivers userspace , kernel modules, improving reliability on kernel migrations
• updated gnome 2.32.2 , kde 4.6.4
• updated grub 1.99
• introduced "kernel-switcher" tool, switch between available sabayon linux kernels
• python toolchain updated version 2.7
• updated gcc 4.5.2
• dracut , plymouth ready (expect them in sabayon 7)
• thousands of updates , bug fixes flew in, during these last 4 months
• we're still here! (it's feature), donations, please keep donating, donate now!

minimum requirements (aka, don't underestimate them, else does):

• an i686-compatible processor (intel pentium ii/iii, celeron, amd athlon)
• 512mb ram (gnome) - 768mb ram (kde)
• 8 gb of free space
• a x.org supported 2d gpu
• a dvd reader

optimal requirements

• a dual core processor (intel core 2 duo or better, amd athlon 64 x2 or better)
• 1024mb ram
• 15 gb of free space
• a x.org supported 3d gpu (intel, amd, nvidia) (esp. xbmc)

download sources
iso images (those little .iso files have download , burn) available on our mirrors:

• sabayon linux 6 amd64 (x86_64, x64) gnome:
  06b51b1b0210a636c40a0eba1822539c sabayon_linux_6_amd64_g.iso
• sabayon linux 6 x86 (i686, x32) gnome:
  76ce8f9871940573a5841123348def29 sabayon_linux_6_x86_g.iso
• sabayon linux 6 amd64 (x86_64, x64) kde:
  ce2d774270bb8c020aedf76f5f57e5bb sabayon_linux_6_amd64_k.iso
• sabayon linux 6 x86 (i686, x32) kde:
  68ece268e181967b8200382b019e3c0b sabayon_linux_6_x86_k.iso
• sabayon mirrors page

shouldn't sabayon, bleeding edge distro, have gome 3 default? kinda sucks.

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