Saturday, May 17, 2008

Sabayon Linux 3.5 Beta 3 review

Distribution features and changes in Sabayon 3.5 beta 3
Sabayon Linux is World Most used feature rich Gentoo Based Linux distro. It always find a place in top ten Linux Distro in Distrowatch.com top 100 Linux List.

Multimedia :
Sabayon comes pre-loaded with all the required codecs. I was able to view DVD, listen mp3 files, watch windows media files.So, it is handy for all beginners who just want to try something better than windows.



System improvements:

- Boot time takes from 15 to 25 seconds less, thanks to Gentoo OpenRC and Baselayout-2 combined to our boot optimizations. On modern hardware, Sabayon now boots in less than 30 seconds.
- Improved VirtualBox support (hardware autoconfiguration)
- System directories have been cleaned up, resulting in a slight speed improvement
- Fixed a lot of keyboard mapping issues.

Sabayon Linux Installer updates:
- Added the long discussed Custom Packages Selector, customize your installation has never been so easy.
>>Fake Raid (dmraid) support implemented.
>>EeePC install mode got a lot of bug fixes.
  • - Core install mode got a lot of bug fixes
    - Improved Entropy interaction speed by a 50%

    • - Thus, improved upgrades speed too.

  • Linux Kernel 2.6.25.2 featuring:
    - Improved Wireless and Laptop support
    - Extra ATL2, at76, ath5k (w/PCI-X support) and e1000 on Intel ICH9 network drivers
    - EeePC support with performance patches
    - Ext4, UnionFS 2.3.3 and AUFS filesystem support
  • X.Org 7.3 featuring
    - NVIDIA: 173.08, 96.43.05 and 71.86.04 - automatic selection - 3D desktop fully supported
    - AMD/ATI: 8.476 - 3D desktop fully supported
  • Enhanced Desktop, featuring:
    - Compiz 0.7.4
    - Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 supporting GNOME, KDE, a lot of plugins already included
    - Fusion Icon, to enable/disable 3D effects on the fly!
  • Gaming! Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, Second Life! included as top-tier 3D games!
  • GeeXboX 1.1 to transform your PC into a full Media Center
  • K Desktop Environment 3.5.9 featuring KDE4 games
  • Full KDE 4.0.3 available in our Entropy repository!
  • GNOME 2.22.0
  • XFCE 4.4.2
  • OpenOffice 2.4.0
  • Elisa Media Center 0.3.4
  • Wine 1.0 RC1.
  • NVIDIA 173.08 beta drivers can cause slow 2D performance on some cards, you can just revert to 169.12 by running equo install ~x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.12.
  • Ath5k wireless driver doesn't support EeePC yet, please use ndiswrapper.

>>Conclusion.... Now I can advice you wait for final release of sabayon 3.5 because its has some bugs.

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