| Sabayon Linux v3.2 release adds Intel Pro wireless |
Dec. 19, 2006
Version 3.2 of Sabayon Linux hit the web released last week. The Gentoo-based distro features a 2.6.18 kernel and a choice of KDE, GNOME, or XFce desktop environments, and now also includes out-of-the-box support for Intel Pro wireless 3945.
Italy-based Sabayon Linux is a live DVD designed to transform a PC into a Gentoo Linux system in less than five minutes, a team spokesman said. The live DVD also facilitates installation of the distribution onto a hard drive, acting as an easy-to-use Gentoo installation disk.
New features and refinements in this new release, according to the project team, include:- improved and production-ready GPU automatic detection
- OpenGL sub-system wrong auto-detection and user error detector (will greatly improve the number of NVIDIA and ATI supported cards)
- new HAL 0.5.8.1, supports full NTFS read and write out-of-the-box through FUSE and in general much more powerful
- NVIDIA drivers 1.0-9631 (fixes bug on GeForce3/4 video cards)
- ATI drivers 8.31.5
- KOffice 1.6.1 office suite
- fixed nohdparm boot option
- improved NetworkManager
- fixed installation from USB CD/DVD media.
Standard features include:- GIMP 2.3.11 graphics editor
- Fluxbox windowing manager
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 office suite
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 email client
- amaroK 1.4.4 media player
- PostgreSQL 8.1.4 database
- MySQL 5.0.26 database server
You can download Sabayon Linux for free through the team's download site, here. Or, you can download the 697 MB iso via BitTorrent here (for x86 machines) or here
Some screenshots can be viewed here.
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