Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux) is an operating system based on Gentoo. It is a Linux distribution developed in Europe by Fabio ERCULIANI and the Sabayon development team. The Sabayon distribution follows the “out of the box” philosophy aiming to give the end user a large range of applications, ready for use and a self-configuring operating system.
Sabayon Linux is a rolling release, it uses its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon supports two architectures x86 and AMD64 and provides support for ARMv7 which is still under development.
It takes its name from the Italian dessert zabaione, which is made from eggs. Thus, the Sabayon logo is an impression of a chicken leg.
Let's move on to the installation. We will install Sabayon Linux on a computer running Manjaro or any other distribution based on Arch or Redhat. You can download the version you are interested in from the operating system's repository on the University of Crete's FTP server:
ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/SabayonLinux/iso/daily/
Burn the DVD or transfer it with the dd command onto a USB stick and we are ready to start.
dd if=the-Sabayon.iso of=/dev/sd(x)
The distribution, unlike Gentoo, uses the graphical installer Anaconda. For me it continues to be the best installer available.
Before you start the installation, make sure you have the necessary space for the new operating system. If you don't, you can create space by shrinking the disk you are using. Use gparted from a live environment.
Our Live DVD impressed us as it found all the drivers with a single boot, something I have observed in very few distributions. For example, in the image below you will see that during the installation it had already found the drivers for the Wi‑Fi.
For the dual boot I chose partition 2 (boot/efi) without formatting so as not to delete the Manjaro boot.
To Sabayon Linux went to partition 5 (/) and as swap you don’t need to add anything since anaconda will use what already exists.
After installation we need to tell Manjaro (or any other OS based on Arch or Redhat) to read /boot/efi again to recognize and display the new OS on the boot screen.
So from Manjaro now open the terminal and run the following command:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
You are ready; with the next reboot you will be able to see your new operating system.
Information about Sabayon Linux from Wikipedia.
