Sabayon Linux 3.4 Released

The Sabayon Linux team has recently posted a press release, announcing the "IMMEDIAT" availability of the latest Sabayon release, 3.4. According to the team's press release, this version comes after almost 4 months of hard and deep development, which means that we should expect to find some more interesting features added since the previous release.

Based on the Gentoo distribution, Sabayon uses the Gentoo's Portage system for package management, which means that all updates and basic characteristics are compatible with Gentoo's portage tree and there are also many other similarities in different mechanisms. The Sabayon 3.4 stable release is said to be very gaming-oriented, therefore you'll find pretty much good games featured in there, among which I shall mention: Savage 2, FlightGear, Nexuiz, Torcs, Second Life, Battle of Wesnoth, Warsow or DangerDeep.

Highlights:

- latest NVIDIA (100.14.11) and AMD (8.38.6) GPU drivers
- supports NTFS in read/write and Wine Doors utility, easy installation of Windows apps
- first to support Ext4 File System.
- Cutting Edge DVD: featuring Compiz Fusion and Metisse (Technology Preview) integration
- increased flexibility: the Installer features an improved execution speed, RAID10 support, Ext4 Support, UUID device naming support, a Packages Selector, a Boot Services Selector and also a Core/Minimal Install Method (Server deployments)
- X.Org 7.3 with automatic Monitor configuration
- tested and optimized also for Laptop usage
- KDE 3.5.7
- GNOME 2.18.2
- Linux Kernel 2.6.22 with extra Power Management (PowerTop), Wireless (mac80211), Ext4 Filesystem, Scheduler (CFS) and Virtualization (KVM,Virt-Manager,VirtualBox) support
- almost 140 duplicated packages have been removed
- added support for Intel ICH8M, Atheros Wireless cards, Backlight management and new Synaptics touchpads
- improved Out of the Box hardware support: Agere et131x
- VMware Guest Installation Support
- new Media Center capabilities: featuring GeeXbox 1.1 and Elisa Media Center (Technology Preview)
- extended set of installed and preconfigured Applications
- the most reliable released version of its kind