Gentoo-Based Sabayon 16.05 Linux OS Switches to the Latest Linux 4.5 Kernel

Posted by hanuca on Apr 30, 2016 5:31 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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The developers of the Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux operating system have announced the release of the respin ISO images for the month of May of 2016.

Sabayon 16.05 appears to be a small maintenance release, which only bring support for the latest Linux 4.5 kernel series, but also adds the latest critical security patches and software updates released upstream, and fixes various bugs that have been reported by users since the Sabayon 16.04 ISO respins announced at the end of March.

Other than that, it looks like the long-anticipated Sabayon Community Repositories (SCR) are finally up, providing users with a repository system similar to the AUR one for Arch Linux so that they can contribute to packages that aren't available in the main Sabayon repos.

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