Sabayon Linux 7 "Experimental Released"

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Fabio Erculiani has announced the availability of three experimental editions of Sabayon Linux 7, containing the LXDE desktop environment, Enlightenment 17 and the Awesome window manager:

Fabio Erculiani has announced that Sabayon 7 Linux will be available with 3 different desktop environements

 

  • LXDE is a minimal, CD-sized flavour geared towards low-end computers, shipping the LXDE Desktop Environment.
  • E17 is a minimal, CD-sized flavour made for people wanting to showcase the magic of Enlightenment 17.
  • Awesome is a first timer here, thanks to Brian Tomlinson efforts, Sabayon has now an Awesome WM flavour as well

Notable features of Sabayon Linux 7

  • Latest and greatest package updates from repositories (updated on November, 8 2011)
  • Shipping with the Linux Kernel 3.1.0 (woot!)
  • Even more lightweight, GCC is now provided by the sys-devel/gcc package, shipped separately
  • ext4 filesystem as default, btrfs, encrypted filesystem support
  • Installable in less than 5 minutes
  • Completely customizable system after install.
  • Entropy and Portage ready (giving access to thousands of installable packages)
  • This is part of the Sabayon 7 release series, see this Press Release as well

There were no important bug fixes in thie new release

Download Sabayon Linux 7

Source: The offiicial blog of Sabayon Linux

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