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New Spins of Sabayon release which include the following three spins: XFCE, LXDE and OpenVZ. I’ve been in pain most of the day and in a grouchy mood, so I’m just going to post the info from the release announcement. There’s a link to the actual release announcement at the end of the post.

Our crew, is happy to announce the immediate availability of XFCE, LXDE and SpinBase/OpenVZ Sabayon 5.3 “Spins” built on top of Sabayon “SpinBase” ISO images.
Under the “Extra Spins” umbrella, the Sabayon developers are going to experiment new Stable Releases with different package compositions.
Consider these “Extra Spins” an appetizer of what you will get in the upcoming months: more “Spins” are planned and more external contributions will be accepted.
Just like the other regular Sabayon releases, these “Extra Spins” are also daily built by our Build Servers and available in our mirrors inside the “iso/daily” directory.

Features of Sabayon 5.3 XFCE Spin:

• Bootable Image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive (<700Mb)
• Linux 2.6.34 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 3.6.6
• Basic VirtualBox Guest integration
• Very fast installation via our Live Anaconda Installer (which gained stability improvements and several new minor features)
• Very minimal setup to fit into a CD, no fancy features and drivers. Designed for low-end computers.
• Package list: amd64
• Package list: x86

Features of Sabayon 5.3 LXDE Spin:

• Bootable Image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive (<700Mb)
• Linux 2.6.34 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 3.6.6
• Basic VirtualBox Guest integration
• Very fast installation via our Live Anaconda Installer (which gained stability improvements and several new minor features)
• Very minimal setup to fit into a CD, no fancy features and drivers. Designed for low-end computers (and Windows-addicted users).
• Package list: amd64
• Package list: x86

Features of Sabayon 5.3 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
• Package list: amd64
• Package list: x86

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

MD5 hashes of released files
71923122a703af647cf9128356edf103 Sabayon_Linux_5.3_amd64_LXDE.iso
dba2212e09764186ab56c74fdeb70922 Sabayon_Linux_5.3_x86_LXDE.iso
66c54177b3c26226689b571bb6eb9aa2 Sabayon_Linux_5.3_amd64_XFCE.iso
ec605701b7cbd24c07c82d956377be3e Sabayon_Linux_5.3_x86_XFCE.iso
ee2b3e08ab98e99713df9fa0c2f0fad3 Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_5.3_amd64_openvz.tar.gz
aec80516bf2992d70960e337842eb8ec Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_5.3_x86_openvz.tar.gz

via: Sabayon Forums • View topic – Sabayon Linux 5.3 “Extra Spins” releases.

The latest release of Wine has taken two years with over 23,000 changes. These changes include over 3,000 bug fixes.

You can get the source from:

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2.tar.bz2
• http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.2.tar.bz2
• http://www.winehq.org/git to get it straight from the source repository

Or you can download a binary package from:

• http://www.winehq.org/download

Documentation can be found here:

• http://www.winehq.org/documentation

What’s new (highlights):

Core functionality

• Loading and running 64-bit Windows applications is now supported on x86-64 processors
• WoW64 file system redirection is supported now
• WoW64 registry redirection is now supported in 64-bit prefixes.
• The mount manager now reports the actual UUID for disk devices that support it instead of a hard-coded one.
• Symbolic links are now supported in the registry.

User interface

• New icons for built-in applications, and for the standard toolbars and images. These are based on the Tango which should give application better integration with the rest of the Linux UI.
• There is now an application wizard control panel to manage installed applications.
• Many features of the RichEdit control are improved
• Many common controls work better now
• Wine is now fully translated to French, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, and Korean.

Desktop integration

• File associations created by a Windows applications are now registered with the Unix desktop.
• Application icons support alpha channel transparency under window managers that support it.
• Screen saver is now launched when a Windows application makes a request to start the screen saver.
• Start Menu entries are now properly removed when an application is uninstalled.
• Copying and pasting images between Windows and Unix applications
• Launching an external Unix Web browser from a Windows application
• MSI files are now associated with Wine

Graphics

• Subpixel font rendering is now supported
• Icons with alpha channels are now properly blended in
• Image lists now properly store the alpha channel of images
• The windowscodecs dll has been added, with codecs for the JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, and TIFF image formats.
• Many more capabilities are now supported in the SANE scanner backend. This improves scanning support in Acrobat.

Audio

• Digital playback of audio CDs is now supported.

Internet and networking

• The Gecko HTML engine has been updated
• There is now an essentially complete implementation of the JavaScript language.
• The IRDA network protocol is now supported by the socket layer.

There are also improvements to Direc3D, built-in applications and performance.

For a complete list of changes and additions please read the release announcement.