Sabayon Linux
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Sabayon Linux 11 with MATE
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| Developer | Fabio Erculiani and Team |
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| OS family | Linux (based on Gentoo Linux) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Mixed |
| Initial release | 28 November 2005 |
| Latest release | (Rolling release) 16.02 / January 29, 2016 |
| Update method | Entropy (Equo, Rigo) / Emerge |
| Package manager | Entropy (Equo, Rigo) / Portage |
| Platforms | x86-64, previously also IA-32 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic kernel (Linux) |
| Userland | GNU |
| Default user interface | GNOME, KDE, Xfce, MATE, Fluxbox |
| License | Various; Mainly GPL |
| Official website | www |
Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), is a Gentoo-based European Linux distribution created by Fabio Erculiani and the Sabayon development team. Sabayon follows the "out of the box" philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.
Sabayon Linux features a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon is available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there is support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.
It is named after an Italian dessert, zabaione which is made from eggs. Sabayon's logo is an impression of a chicken foot.
Since version 4.1, Sabayon has been released in two different flavors featuring either the GNOME or KDE desktop environments, with the ultralight Fluxbox environment included as well. (In the previous versions all three environments were included in a DVD ISO image).
Since Sabayon's initial release, additional versions of Sabayon have added other X environments, including Xfce and LXDE. A CoreCD edition which featured a minimal install of Sabayon was released to allow the creation of spins of the Sabayon operating system; however, this was later discontinued and replaced by CoreCDX (fluxbox window manager) and Spinbase (no X environment) first and by "Sabayon Minimal" later. A ServerBase edition was released which features a server-optimized kernel and a small footprint, but this was later discontinued and integrated into the "Sabayon Minimal".
Daily build images are available to the Sabayon testers, but are released weekly to the public on the system mirrors containing stable releases. Official releases are simply DAILY versions which have received deeper testing. The adoption of Molecule led the team to change the naming system for releases.
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