Sabayon

Sabayon Linux is a Gentoo-based pre-configured (rolling release) distribution which works out-of-the-box with the tenets of Performance, Versatility, and Stability, based on the source-based distribution named Gentoo Linux, a particularly customizable distribution. Sabayon Linux has two package managers: Entropy (binary packages) and Portage (source packages). As you can install binary packages instead of source code-based packages, Sabayon Linux offers users a choice and the best of both worlds. The binary packages in the Entropy repository have been built by using the Portage package manager and then packaged using Entropy packaging tools on that computer. The binary packages are stored in the Entropy repository and you install them on your computer by using either the Equo command line client or the Rigo GUI client. Currently Sabayon has about 13,000 packages in Entropy. And when Sabayon is using the package manager “Portage”, it is source based. The Gentoo repository is quite huge. Sabayon offers the user an easy-to-use workspace with a captivating look, good hardware detection and a large number of up-to-date software packages installed by default, with additional software available from a repository.