Sabayon comes in different flavours to choose.<br>
To distinguish between them, a suffix is appended to file names.<br>
Here's a short description. <strong>More details</strong> can be found <a href="http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=20887">in this thread on Sabayon forum</a>.
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<p><strong>main releases:</strong></p>
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<dt>G</dt>
<dd>This version contains the well known GNOME 3.</dd>
<dt>K</dt>
<dd>This version comes with KDE SC, another popular desktop environment.</dd>
<dt>Xfce</dt>
<dd>Contains Xfce - lightweight yet very functional and friendly desktop.</dd>
<p><strong>experimental or secondary releases:</strong></p>
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<dt>LXDE</dt>
<dd>With LXDE. Small, pretty and usable. In this category it's the best solution for newbies.</dd>
<dt>E17</dt>
<dd>With Enlightenment DR17.</dd>
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<p><strong>additionally, these Core releases are available:</strong></p>
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<dt>SpinBase</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>CoreCDX</dt>
<dd>It's geared towards very minimal graphical environment setup, no fancy tools, browsers, whatever, just Fluxbox and command line.</dd>
<dt>ServerBase</dt>
<dd>It's very similar to SpinBase, but powered by a server-optimized Linux kernel (package: sys-kernel/linux-server).</dd>
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<dt>OpenVZ</dt>
<dd>It's our official OpenVZ template.</dd>
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All of them have a smaller footprint making them fit into a single CD, or USB memory sticks.<br>
SpinBase and ServerBase are provided with a very minimal Anaconda Installer and CoreCDX <strong>should be preferred</strong> for non-standard filesystem/partition layouts.