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Sabayon 5.2 Status Update

So its been a while since I’ve blogged so I thought I would take some time to let you know whats happening in Sabyon-dev-land. Limbo users will have noticed lots of cool stuff has been added including the Phoronix Test Suite, KDE4.4RC, Emesene 1.6 as well as …

Sabayon and -O2

Well during my usual perusal of Linux based sites one particular article took my eye, it was Linux Magazines Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked. It shows, in my opinion quite comprehensively, the advantage of a Gentoo base system with the latest kernel and I reccomend you check out the figures for yourself …

VirtualBox 3.0.0 Now available on Sabayon Overlay

ust committed the three ebuilds, the first is app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.0 and the second is app-emulation/vitualbox-modules-3.0.0 and finally app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions. I may add the OSE but I haven’t seen anyone using that recently, so it got left out this time. This are in the overlay …

New Firefoxes

Yesterday I pushed 3 new firefox versions into the sabayon overlay, “whats so great about these firefoxes?” I hear you ask, well there are a few things. Firstly they branded correctly as “Sabayon” which means sites that pick up on what OS your using will show you as usiong Sabayon …

KDE4 Theming & Aurorae

When KDE4 was first released I was shocked at the lack of conguration options themewise compared to 3.5 and its wealth of options, I had best note plasma however is a notable exception, a triumph of customisation and SVG goodness! Kwin has needed a decent engine for theming for …

Holiday & Sabayon 5 KDE 4.3

Im back! woot. After a week of holiday its good to get involved again with some Sabayon stuff. Holiday was nice got to see the Folks and have a bit of a computer detox! Im surprised I survived so long with no linuxiness to be honest. So I come back …

Sysinfo Kioslave on Sabayon 5

The sysinfo:/ kioslave (aka “My Computer”) in konqueror is one of my favourite KDE3.5 features, I saw that SuSE and Fedora had this working so decided to “port” it over to sabayon, so after a few hours of playing around (my term for Sabayon work lol) there is one …

Contributing upstream, it will make or break Linux

Many fully fledges distros have drawn praise for bringing something new to the linux arena, while relying on the solid foundation of a mother distro, Mint, for example, is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. Sabayon is based on Gentoo; PCLinuxOS on Mandrivia so on and so forth …

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 withCon Kolivas 1 (ck1) 2.6.33 desktop performance patches(including BFS). Sabayon …

The Joys of IRC

hought I would share a little IRC session that me laugh. Oh, and if you want useful information on Sabayon 5, please see Wolfden’s very useful planet post, inc pretty screenshots This is the kind of thing that you see and dont expect it to happen to you! Ahh …