Sabayon Linux is an operating system powered by the Linux kernel and GNU. There are many Linux flavors, but most geeks just call them distributions. Sabayon a Linux distribution, though, and try to provide their users the best and most complete computing experience.

Sabayon Linux uses Gentoo Linux as its base. It is (and always will be) 100% compatible with it. Sabayon is one of the most scalable distributions and are happy to support everyone from the most creative kernel hacker to the newbie.

• Sabayon offers a complete out-of-the-box experience, it comes with pre-installed media codecs, drivers, and games.
• New versions are released in a short amount of time. This means that you don't have to go through the headaches of updating by hand to the latest and greatest software available. Also, you don't have to fiddle around with updates, making this distribution that much easier.
• Unlike most other distributions, it's completely independent from commercial interests. No big firm stands behind Sabayon Linux and dictates what it should do. The developers of Sabayon Linux are all users from other Distributions, so they started to make a distribution "from users for users".