The best, refined blend of GNU/Linux, coming with bleeding edge edges is eventually here! Say hello to Sabayon Five-point-Oneh, available in both GNOME and KDE editions!
Dedicated to those who like cutting edge stability, out of the box experience, outstanding Desktop performance, clean and beauty. Sabayon 5.1-r1 will catch you, anything that could have been compiled, has been compiled, anything cool that could have been implemented or updated, it's there: you will find outstanding amount of new applications and features, like XBMC 9.04.1 (formerly known as Xbox Media Center), KDE 4.3.4, GNOME 2.28, and so forth.
So, come on, go catch it, it's half a DVD away from you!
Features of Sabayon 5.1-r1:
- Based on new GCC 4.4.1 and Glibc 2.10
- Shipped with Desktop-optimized Linux kernel 2.6.31 (ready for 2.6.32)
- Providing extra Server-optimized and OpenVZ-enabled kernels in repositories
- Installer now available in multiple languages
- Complete Ext4 filesystem support (used by default)
- Complete Encrypted filesystems support (via dmcrypt, available in the Installer)
- Featuring X.Org 7.5 and up-to-date FLOSS, NVIDIA, AMD video drivers
- Containing GNOME 2.28 (with GNOME Shell!) and KDE 4.3.4
- Outstanding 3D Desktop applications (Compiz, Compiz Fusion and KWin) working out of the box
- Bringing Entropy Framework (Package Manager) 0.99.19.1
- Shipped with OpenOffice 3.1 productivity suite, Multimedia applications
- Transform Sabayon into an full-featured HTPC Operating System (Media Center) using XBMC
- Shipped with World of Goo Demo - best 2D game ever!
- Sexiest Skin ever! (Ian Whyman rocks)
- Try it out from Windows, just kick the DVD in and use Sabayon via QEMU virtualization!
- Ready for Sabayon 6 (someday!)
Updates since Sabayon 5.o:
- KDE updated to 4.3.4 and now more integrated than ever!
- GNOME update to 2.28 and the outstanding new Desktop
concept brought by GNOME Shell (available on DVD)
- Added the ability to try Sabayon under Windows via QEMU
- No more passwords to remember on Live system, just hit the Enter key
- Improved HDTV screens detection
- Entropy Framework updated to 0.99.19.1, featuring outstanding performance, tons of bugfixes and features (see our Git repos)
- More than 4000 new updated packages available
- Slightly improved Live boot speed
- Thanks to our Community, more than 120 new bugs were closed (see: Bugzilla) during this release cycle
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