How things are going

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Sabayon

Well, this morning I was thinking that I need to blog a little bit more, so here I am. Things are going well on the Sabayon side, we released a nearly perfect miniEdition last week and that’s a good thing from the QA side.

Talking about future releases:

• We are going to have a Professional Edition (yeah Business Edition changed its name) with the new artwork soon.


• We are going to have a new Loop release cycle (3.5 Loop 1) in less than one month with a huge amount of features (Entropy Alpha-stage included)


• We are going to public the new artwork stuff and rework the whole Sabayon theme that will show up in the upcoming releases listed above

Entropy/Equo

Even if I prefer coding rather than blogging about Entropy these days (eheh, let me keep this kind of secrecy for now), I can’t hide the fact that today has been a great day for the whole project. I successfully upgraded a 3.4F installation to the current available binary packages using Equo (that contain X.Org 7.3 for example…). A lot of code is still missing (like etc-update alike function, env-update, post/pre install scripts and so on), but things are moving fast!

Gentoo relationship

Some of you hide behind their stupidity thinking of me like a robber. Well, it’s not that and those guys don’t really have any clue. Firstly, I’d say: “Welcome to the Open Source world”. What I’m doing is building a mutual relationship among our project and some really kind Gentoo developers. I can’t hide the fact that drobbins always lays around #sabayon on irc.freenode.org and with him, you could see some pro-Sabayon Gentoo developers. It’s really nice to see that. I gave a lot to Gentoo, just think about the fact that even a newbie can install and use our distribution, this gives to Gentoo three main advantages:

• Users are going to use the Gentoo toolchain (portage, ebuilds and so on…)


• Users can really start to understand how an Operating System works under the hood, thanks to Gentoo scalability


• Users can use bleeding edge software and rethink their view on Gentoo

Yeah, because Sabayon is just how Gentoo should be for me: user friendly and at the same time powerful. So if you hear someone saying that Sabayon is not Gentoo, try to ask him why Sabayon is built with catalyst, uses portage (at the moment) and has a /var/db/pkg tree. What’s the difference between Gentoo and Sabayon? The answer is up to you.

More about Gentoo in the next days

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