Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Development Release : Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.4 Loop 3

Sabayon Linux announced the release of third testing version of 3.4. Excerpts from the release announcement.

The Sabayon Linux Crew is happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop3 for both x86 and x86-64 architecture.

What happened since Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop2 ?
    Important Changes:
  • Removed Enlightenment 16 Desktop to let us focus better on GNOME/KDE integration
  • Removed 140 packages - a.k.a. the mass shrinking - NO MORE duplicated applications
  • Removed NX server, Internet Kiosk framework and all the server oriented applications (they will show up in the Business Edition)

    Gaming:
  • Sabayon Linux 3.4 is all about gaming! Play your favourite games as easy as 1-2-3.
  • Strengthen the Sabayon Linux Games Deployment framework - we NOW support a lot of Cool GAMES!
  • Featuring
  • Savage 2.00e
  • FlightGear 0.9.10
  • DangerDeep 0.3.0
  • Warsow 0.3
  • Nexuiz 2.3
  • Torcs 1.3.0
  • Battle of Wesnoth 1.2.4
  • Coldwar demo has been removed
  • Hardware Support:
  • Updated NVIDIA drivers to 100.14.11
  • Updated ATI drivers to 8.37.8
  • Updated madwifi-ng driver to SVN snapshot to support MacBooks
  • Strengthen VMWare 6.0 support
  • Re-added linuxwlan-ng drivers
  • Added pommed utility to support MacBooks LCD backlight tuning
  • Added support for Agere et131x ethernet controller -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x
  • if NVIDIA detected: add NVIDIA Control Center icon to desktop
  • if ATI detected: add AMD Control Center icon to desktop
  • Updated HAL to 0.5.9 (plus upstream accepted patches for 0.5.9.1) - complete MacBook support
  • Updated kernel with the latest stable patches

    Noticeable Applications:
  • Updated KDE to 3.5.7
  • Added FileZilla 3.0 FTP Client
  • Update aMule to 2.2.x CVS release (won't crash anymore)
  • Update gnome-main-menu
  • Updated KDEBluetooth to 1.0beta3
  • Updated GeeXbox to 1.1rc3
  • Updated VirtualBox to 1.4.0
  • Added Manencode 0.8
  • Added pommed
  • Updated WINE to 0.9.39
  • Updated sabayon-version with the proper USE flag
  • Updated KVM to 28
Read the full release announcement here.
Download Sabayon here.

1 Comment:

nsuffys said...

Sabayon linux news in french :
Sabayon Linux France : http://sabayonlinux.fr.nf/