Sabayon comes in different flavours to choose.
To distinguish between them, a suffix is appended to file name.
Here's a short description. More details can be found in this thread on Sabayon forum.
main releases:
- G
- This version contains the well known GNOME 3.
- K
- This version comes with KDE SC, another popular desktop environment.
- Xfce
- Contains Xfce - lightweight yet very functional and friendly desktop.
experimental or secondary releases:
- LXDE
- With LXDE. Small, pretty and usable. In this category it's the best solution for newbies.
- E17
- With Enlightenment DR17.
additionally, these Core releases are available:
- SpinBase
- It's a very minimal environment that can be used for many different purposes: didactical, home server deployment, and even for custom Sabayon ISO images creation, using our tool called Molecule. Any Sabayon release we make is based on SpinBase.
- CoreCDX
- It's geared towards very minimal graphical environment setup, no fancy tools, browsers, whatever, just Fluxbox and command line.
- ServerBase
- It's very similar to SpinBase, but powered by a server-optimized Linux kernel (package: sys-kernel/linux-server).
- OpenVZ
- It's our official OpenVZ template.
All of them have a smaller footprint making them fit into a single CD, or USB memory sticks.
SpinBase and ServerBase are provided with a very minimal Anaconda Installer and CoreCDX should be preferred for non-standard filesystem/partition layouts.