Sabayon 5.2 To Ship With 2.6.33 Kernel… and BFS!

With Sabayon fever reaching boiling point I have some cool news to break to you all, which, as you have guessed from the title is that Sabayon 5.2 will ship with 2.6.33 Kernel with Con Kolivas 1 (ck1) 2.6.33 desktop performance patches (including BFS).

Sabayon has a reputation for pushing new desktop technologies into the forefront of Linux and this move will continue on that path, the announcement (commit) was made by our Great Leader(tm) Lxnay on

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Posted at 11pm on 28/02/10 | 2 comments | Filed Under: News, Sabayon, cool

Pulseaudio and Kmix 4.4 in Sabayon 5

Recently there have been a number of issues reported in the forums and other places of people having issues with pulseaudio and kmix after updating to KDE 4.4.0.  I am glad to announce that most of those issues should now be resolved with the latest round of updates being pushed out by hardworking entropy maintainer Joost! Woot!

I identified the root of most of the problems which  seemed to be that we were shipping a quite broken pulseaudio configuration based on

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Posted at 10pm on 18/02/10 | 7 comments | Filed Under: News, Overlay, Sabayon