Hello everyone, this mail is a report on current development status, and a "Call for testers".
** Sabayon Server Edition ** Next release will ship back the Server edition, which is just perfect also for those who wants a not-X baked Sabayon version. The installer is still Calamares (just GUI install as for now), but running on a adhoc instance of X, that bloats the ISO size, but after install, all the additional components requested by Calamares are removed. If you wants to put your hands on it before it's release date (28th of the current month), you can download it in our daily directory in one of our mirrors[1] , or directly following that[2] link. (be careful to download the image dated after 7th October) Just a note*:* if you wonder how you have to set network configuration after install, we ship NetworkManager that provides nmtui (the console frontend) **Important packages coming up, and now in testing** On the testing repositories now are available the following "critical" packages in testing: * Latest 4.2.3 kernel * Ati Drivers 15.9 (expanding supported cards) * Nvidia Drivers 355.11 * systemd 226 * VirtualBox 5.0.6 * Calamares 1.1.4.1 If you encounter in any issue, please file a bug in our bugzilla[3]. Remember to put relevant information on the bug report: steps to reproduce, what you expected, system informations (relative to the issue) ** testers are as important as developers. ** Consider helping Sabayon in a different way: testing it. I am here, begging YOU for some help. The more the merrier! What we need are brave folks proud to be bleeding edge, ready to install all the latest updates, capable observers that carries on using their machine normally BUT taking notes on functionality, installation problems, and any other weirdness or lack thereof. Grab a freshly built image or enable our testing repositories, but more importantly: report back to our bugzilla[3] or dropping by on our IRC channel (#sabayon on chat.freenode.net). Please, when reporting, try to provide as much information as possible, for example, try to answering to those questions: * What steps will reproduce the problem? * What is the expected output? What do you see instead? * What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? And of course, any additional info that comes up to you. we @Sabayon are putting a lot of efforts to build the most awesome sexy lady among the other Linux Distributions. Cheers, Ettore Di Giacinto 1) http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/iso/daily/ 2) http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/iso/daily/Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_amd64_Server-dev.iso 3) https://bugs.sabayon.org/
