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26-466: Sabayon Linux featured a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon was available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there was support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone . It was named after an Italian dessert, zabaione , which is made from eggs. Sabayon's logo was an impression of a chicken foot. In November 2020 it

52-514: 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

78-488: A photo viewer, and not in a Photoshop-like application. Note that this seems to be the default configuration of the GNOME desktop environment, and not a Sabayon-specific issue. I made a similar observation in a review of Hymera Open. Rolling release Rolling release , also known as rolling update or continuous delivery , is a concept in software development of frequently delivering updates to applications. This

104-407: A rolling release model can be used in the development of any piece or collection of software, it is most often seen in use by Linux distributions , notable examples being GNU Guix System , Arch Linux , Gentoo Linux , openSUSE Tumbleweed , PCLinuxOS , Solus , SparkyLinux , and Void Linux . Some modern Distributed SQL databases such as YugabyteDB also support this feature. A rolling release

130-430: A sense of confidence. The desktop appears so polished and refined. The menus are chocked [ sic ] full of useful applications and tools. The fonts are great looking and performance is amazing (considering it appears built for i386). It features a 2.6.14-r2 kernel and uses a 6.99 of Xorg. The crowning jewel is the installer. It's the whole point. Dedoimedo wrote in a 2008 review that: Sabayon aims at delivering

156-404: A tasteful new theme that starts at first boot and is consistent throughout. Gone are the gothic tones of 2.x and the gawdy bright blue of 3.x. The professional quality graphics feature gray tones with royal blue accents and is very easy on the eyes. This new theme reflects the maturity of the distribution and its developers. DistroWatch Weekly reviewed Sabayon Linux in 2009, stating: The installer

182-463: A while but finally gave up and fired up fdisk. The install proceeded without incident after that. I chose to use the Ext4 filesystem and installed all software. There isn't a complete individual package selection, but broad categories and a few optional packages are listed one can disable. One can set up user accounts and a root password is desired, even though by default the first user account will be set up as

208-470: Is found; otherwise, the default open-source drivers are used. Because of the automatic driver configuration, the compositing window manager Compiz Fusion and KWin were used for the GNOME and KDE editions, respectively. The discovery and configuration of network cards, wireless cards, and webcams was similarly automatic. Most printers were detected automatically but required specific manual configuration through

234-599: Is in contrast to a standard or point release development model which uses software versions which replace the previous version. An example of this difference would be the multiple versions of Ubuntu Linux vis-à-vis the single and constantly updated version of Arch Linux . A rolling release model should not be confused with a staged or " staggered " rollout, in which an update is gradually made available to an increasing percentage of users for testing or bandwidth reasons. Rolling release development models are one of many types of software release life cycles . Although

260-414: Is simple and easy-to-use. However, I did have some issues with the partitioner. Having just installed a new hard drive, I needed to set up partitions and thought I'd use the Sabayon installer for that. If memory serves, Sabayon adapted portions of Anaconda for their installer several version back and I thought it would be up to the job. Depending upon your perspective, it may have been. The issue I had with it

286-600: Is typical for Gentoo, which required more extensive knowledge of the operating system (particularly for the compilation of the Linux kernel ). Installation took up to 30 minutes depending on the speed of the DVD drive. Those without a DVD drive could install the GNOME and KDE versions through a USB drive, which could be created with Unetbootin . A program played music during the boot process. Tux Machines reviewed Sabayon Linux in 2005 and wrote: The system starts out really impressive. I booted

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312-407: Is typically implemented using small and frequent updates . However, simply having updates does not automatically mean that a piece of software is using a rolling release cycle; for this, the philosophy of developers must be to work with one code branch as opposed to discrete versions. When the rolling release is employed as the development model, software updates are typically delivered to users by

338-559: The CUPS interface. Sabayon Linux relied on two package managers . Portage was inherited from Gentoo, while Entropy was developed for Sabayon by Fabio Erculiani and others. Portage downloaded source-code and compiled it specifically for the target system, whereas Entropy managed binary files from servers. The binary tarball packages were precompiled using the Gentoo Linux unstable tree. Entropy clients then pulled these tarballs and performed

364-626: The ability of allowing users to help generate relevant content by voting and by attaching images, files and web links to a package. The Rigo application browser was a GUI front-end to Entropy that was the successor to Sulfur (aka Entropy Store). Taking on a "less is more" approach, Rigo was designed to be simple and fast. During an interview with Fabio Erculiani he described Rigo as a ”Google-like” Applications Management UI. Rigo handled system updates, package searching, install/removal of packages, up/down voting of packages, and many other common Entropy tasks. The number of applications installed by default

390-516: The administrator. The GRUB bootloader will be installed if and where you wish and it'll try to detect and include other systems. That part is a bit hit and miss, but most are. LinuxBSDos wrote a review in 2009. Its review of Sabayon 5, stated that: In Nautilus, the file manager, clicking on an image file opens the file in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). I think when most people click on an image file, they want to view it in

416-474: The complete experience out of the box. This means a plethora of programs, audio and video codecs and the sexy Compiz 3D desktop effects. It is also fully compatible with Gentoo, allowing the power users the ability to squeeze the absolute maximum of their operating system. Linux.com wrote a review about Sabayon 3.4, saying: All the options take a relatively long time to boot – approximately three minutes on my system. During boot, startup music begins playing during

442-556: The last stages, unless you choose the Start without Music boot option. After the boot process, the first screen to appear will be the Configure Accelerated Desktop options. Sabayon loaded my Nvidia drivers, but neither Compiz Fusion or Metisse would work properly on my machines. I also had trouble shutting down or rebooting Sabayon; it would hang more times than not. LWN.net reviewed Sabayon 4.0x saying: Sabayon Linux 4 sports

468-482: The livedvd and was given the option of just hitting enter or perusing several booting options. Then the silent boot features a lovely splash that utilizes a kde-like progress of highlighting icons rather than a progress bar and all accented by the lovely gentoo purple color scheme. The verbose boot looks just like my everyday gentoo system booting – a variation on the regular linux boot you've all probably seen many many times. A beautiful desktop greets you and lulls you into

494-702: The team to change the naming system for releases. Currently available versions are: Derivatives Additional X window managers could also be installed from the Sabayon repositories, such as Cinnamon and Razor-qt . Sabayon used the same core components as the Gentoo Linux distribution and used systemd . All of the Gentoo configuration tools, such as etc-update and eselect were fully functional. Sabayon also included additional tools for automatic configuration of various system components such as OpenGL . Sabayon provided proprietary video drivers for both nVidia and ATI hardware. These are enabled if compatible hardware

520-530: The user the option of using precompiled binary files during installation. Although the distribution was a LiveDVD (or a LiveCD for LXDE, CoreCDX, SpinBase and ServerBase) it could be installed on a hard disk once the system was fully booted. Sabayon Linux used the Calamares installer. In previous releases, Anaconda and the Gentoo Linux Installer were used. Installation was designed to be simpler than

546-424: The various post- and pre-compilation calls of the Gentoo ebuild to set up a package correctly. This means the system was completely binary-compatible with a Gentoo system using the same build configuration. The adoption of two package managers allowed expert users to access the full flexibility of the Gentoo system and others to easily and quickly manage software applications and updates. The Entropy software featured

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572-403: Was announced that future Sabayon Linux versions would be based on Funtoo instead of Gentoo Linux. Sabayon Linux was replaced by MocaccinoOS . Since version 4.1, Sabayon had 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

598-497: Was generally not recommended for beginners because its package management system required users to compile source code to install packages (most distributions rely on precompiled binaries ). Compiling larger programs and the base operating system could take several hours. Sabayon was considered easier to install than "pure Gentoo" because it used both the Portage package management system and its own Entropy package management, which allowed

624-1261: Was higher for DVD editions than for editions small enough to fit on a CD. Their selection was also tailored to the choice between GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and MATE. The XBMC environment could be run without loading the full desktop environment. The following table summarizes the software included in GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and MATE versions: Considerable software was also available in the main repository. Many Microsoft Windows executables were automatically run in Wine . Other applications included Adobe Reader , Audacity , Clementine , aMSN , Celestia , Eclipse , FileZilla , GnuCash , Google Earth , Inkscape , Kdenlive , Mozilla Firefox , Mozilla Sunbird , Mozilla Thunderbird , Nero Burning ROM , Opera , Picasa , Skype , Teamviewer , VirtualBox , Vuze and Wireshark . Games (open-source and proprietary) included Doom 3 , Eternal Lands , Nexuiz , OpenArena , Quake , Quake 2 , Quake 3 , Quake 4 , Sauerbraten , The Battle for Wesnoth , Tremulous , Unreal , Unreal Tournament , Urban Terror , Vendetta Online , Warsow , Warzone 2100 , Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory , World of Padman and Xonotic . Gentoo's installation

650-401: Was its insistence that it knew better than me how to arrange my partitions. I kid you not. I'd set up a few partitions in the order and size I wanted, and then they would just mysteriously rearrange themselves to meet some developer's idea of how they should be ordered. And it would not allow me to set up some unused partitions. It insisted they all have names and filesystems. I messed with it for

676-405: Was released which featured a server-optimized kernel and a small footprint, but this was later discontinued and integrated into the "Sabayon Minimal". Daily build images were available to Sabayon testers, but were released weekly to the public on the system mirrors containing stable releases. Official releases were simply DAILY versions which had received deeper testing. The adoption of Molecule led

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