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Sabayon Linux 5.4 “Experimental Spins”: Stable release

933 days
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Press Release: Sabayon Linux 5.4 “Experimental Spins” releases

Our crew, is happy to announce the immediate availability of E17, XFCE, LXDE, SpinBase/OpenVZ, ServerBase Sabayon 5.4 “Spins” built on top of Sabayon “SpinBase” ISO images.
Under the “Experimental Spins” umbrella, the Sabayon developers are going to experiment new Stable Releases with different package compositions.
Just like the other regular Sabayon releases, these “Experimental Spins” are also daily built by our Build Servers and available in our mirrors inside the “iso/daily” directory.
The E17 Spin contains the famous, stable-releases-are-for-n00bs, often compared to Duke Nukem Forever, Enlightenment 17 Desktop Environment.
XFCE and LXDE contain, surprise surprise, the respective Desktop Environments, while SpinBase/OpenVZ contains, guess what, an OpenVZ template ready to go!
Last but not least, ServerBase is our first public ISO image, based on SpinBase, powered by a server-oriented Linux kernel.

    Features of Sabayon 5.4 E17 Spin:

  • Bootable Image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive (<700Mb)
  • Linux 2.6.35 Desktop kernel w/Tuxonice and AUFS support
  • Enlightenment 17 Desktop Environment recently built from SVN
  • NetworkManager 0.8 as default networking tool
  • Out of the box NTFS support via NTFS-3G
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11
  • VirtualBox integration
  • Super fast installation
  • Very minimal setup to fit into a CD, no fancy features and drivers. Designed for low-end computers.
    Features of Sabayon 5.4 XFCE Spin:

  • Bootable Image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive (<700Mb)
  • Linux 2.6.35 Desktop kernel w/Tuxonice and AUFS support
  • XFCE 4.6.2 Desktop Environment
  • NetworkManager 0.8 as default networking tool
  • Out of the box NTFS support via NTFS-3G
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11
  • VirtualBox integration
  • Super fast installation
  • Very minimal setup to fit into a CD, no fancy features and drivers. Designed for low-end computers.
    Features of Sabayon 5.4 LXDE Spin:

  • Bootable Image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive (<700Mb)
  • Linux 2.6.35 Desktop kernel w/Tuxonice and AUFS support
  • LXDE 0.5.0 Desktop Environment
  • NetworkManager 0.8 as default networking tool
  • Out of the box NTFS support via NTFS-3G
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11
  • VirtualBox integration
  • Super fast installation
  • Very minimal setup to fit into a CD, no fancy features and drivers. Designed for low-end computers.
    Features of Sabayon 5.4 SpinBase/OpenVZ templates:

  • To be used with OpenVZ servers (or Sabayon OpenVZ installations with sys-kernel/linux-openvz kernel)
  • Very small footprint, yet providing a full feature OpenVZ guest Virtual Machine
  • OpenVZ template installation howto available at planet.sabayon.org
    Features of Sabayon 5.4 ServerBase:

  • Remastered Sabayon SpinBase release using server-optimized Linux 2.6.35 kernel (sys-kernel/linux-server)
  • Very small footprint, just like SpinBase, containing the bare minimum to make your system boot

Download sources
Our Mirrors Page:
Just choose a link from the list and get to the “iso” directory (also containing packages list)
- http://www.sabayon.org/download
Bittorrent:
- http://tracker.sabayon.org

MD5 hashes of released files
14bd11a57471768a37eb47c1d1937528 Sabayon_Linux_ServerBase_5.4_amd64.iso
a7131fba2e36a34242c2cb06c5016c5c Sabayon_Linux_ServerBase_5.4_x86.iso
294c3cf454ab4065d18abfcf87563828 Sabayon_Linux_5.4_amd64_XFCE.iso
041018802970337c02ff0afc8bd9bb35 Sabayon_Linux_5.4_x86_XFCE.iso
ad909b62478d594c14552946f9522c2d Sabayon_Linux_5.4_amd64_E17.iso
0ed906528063e625cad1408c4b24c3c8 Sabayon_Linux_5.4_x86_E17.iso
e5763f0eea54e0314e4217d817a07471 Sabayon_Linux_5.4_amd64_LXDE.iso
c8f9abc2811577c5d6c505a8eeba9c80 Sabayon_Linux_5.4_x86_LXDE.iso
3d15a2e550855d2f279cc72a8646258f Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_5.4_amd64_openvz.tar.gz
13df05430eed5e7e08193897f41f086e Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_5.4_x86_openvz.tar.gz

Sabayon – Howto e17 Window Manager

1888 days
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I’ve never seriously give enlightenment a serious look before, but you can’t help but wonder with everyone talking about e17 to take a look at it. Nobody seems interested in e16 and e17 has been in production for as long as I can remember it seems like. Maybe some year they will release a stable version. I will go through a howto install e17 on Sabayon Linux

Thanks to bearbonez on the Sabayon Linux forum for providing the links to get one started in the right direction. The first thing we need to do is create a folder in your home directory, I called mine e17.

  1. Open terminal or konsole, should be in your home directory and use $ mkdir e17
  2. $ cd e17
  3. $ wget http://omicron.homeip.net/projects/easy_e17/easy_e17.sh
  4. now we need to change to root in terminal/konsole so su and enter your root password
  5. # chmod +x easy_e17.sh
  6. Now before we run the script, make sure you have libmpd installed first, if not:: # emerge media-libs/libmpd
  7. than continue as normal
  8. # ./easy_e17.sh -i let it do it’s thing – this will take some time to perform. You will get a message when it is done.

It took me about hour and half to compile all those packages, they go quickly. After that I was faced with how to get it to work with gdm/kdm. The solution:

  1. # nano /usr/share/xsessions/e17.desktop
    • add the following:
    • [Desktop Entry]
      Encoding=UTF-8
      Name=e17
      Comment=Log into e17
      Exec=/opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start
      TryExec=/opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start
      Type=Application
      Icon=/opt/e17/share/enlightenment/data/images/enlightenment.png
  2. Save and close the file
  3. #/etc/init.d/xdm restart
  4. Under Session manager on your GDM or KDM login select e17

An Alternative is to use entrance which will replace your GDM or KDM and is actually pretty nice, you just need to add DISPLAYMANAGER=”entrance” to /etc/rc.conf It’s your choice

To keep yourself updated just run # ./easy_e17.sh -u

I found it very easy to work with, just got to explorer a bit to find the stuff. It’s easier to configure than fluxbox and has more eye candy than fluxbox. It does animated backgrounds OTB and you can even download animated backgrounds through the background configuration. I can still run my gnome applications and kde applications in it. There is even a way to get compiz-fusion working with it. You can even grab themes for it also.

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