What do you think about the latest release 4.0?

[carpenterguy]

I Have a msi board with the nvidia chipset that has given me problems in the past. 6 months ago, all The modules needed were not available.
I tried the board again yesterday expecting to reload and re-install with 4.0.
When I rebooted with my 3.5 install.... Everything works fine.

What do you think about 4.0 so far?
Can I upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0?

[Stupot]

You can upgrade, but I would suggest doing a fresh install of 4.0 particularly if you are using 32 bit (x86).

[wolfden]

are you using SL 4-r1?

[carpenterguy]

Sorry Wolfden, not sure what you mean by sl4-rt and google did not help, will assume you are talking about the new distro.
I am / was running 3.5 I was hoping on a little feedback about 4.0 I decided I have been running sabayon for 2 years and will update sooner or later. Now is a good time for me.
I did find a thread that suggest you do not upgrade as it can take 24 hours.
I have a little free time so I am upgrading to see how it goes. I was prepared to wipe and re-install, but hey, it is a quad with 4 gigs, cant take that long. 3 hours and counting.

[thenthenio]

Upgrade from 3.5.1 went fine, I found just few minors easily solvable!
It took about 12 hours on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2,4GHz for updating 1123 packages.
Look is very nice, I think this agrees all Sabayoneros (dark loving and colorful loving ones)!

Many thank to Fabio and Sabayon Dev Team.
Mauro

[carpenterguy]

First I would like to thank Joost for the fine job on the how to.
I followed it and it ran for 6 hours before I went to bed. I woke up and their was 1281 updates and I saw no errors. I rebooted and then read the rest of Joost how to. Re-install grub. I did chroot into it and I had issues installing grub. I ended up re-installing and am very happy with 4.0.
I suggest others read the how to and re-install grub before rebooting.
Joost is your friend and their is a reason why he wrote it.

So far I have not found anything that does not work. My needs are small but have been using sabayon for almost 2 years. It has never failed me and it looks like 4.0 will not either.

msi board with nvidia chipset
8600gt nvidia video
q6700 cpu
4 gigs ram

[bob-about]

Total nob when it comes to using Linux distros, always used windows.

Added extra hard drive to my system, and had a surf round to decide which distro to try.
Settled on this release, went slowly through the how to install the system and only had a
bit of a problem with the partioning, the rest of the install worked with no problems.

I have now a dual boot system that works as it should (even the grahics and sound worked
out the box)

Now I just have to get to grips with the system and learn how to use it to its full potential.

[vbarniev]

I installed 4 in a computer with a Quad, 8 GB of RAM, Nvidia card and 2.5 TB of space. It works great. Had scare day before yesterday with corrupted repos, but was solved.

[Thev00d00]

Dude, I am very jealous of your rig

[zambayoni]

The 4r1 version is very useful. If you want know like work, you have play the live DVD and check how work the sound, the compiz, etc.If you have a good graphic card like nvidia, and if you see that work fine in live DVD with compiz, i recommend that install with option 3D (Compiz load when gnome init), but in your case, i believe that could upgrade.