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linux4life88
October 22nd, 2009, 11:59 PM
I was just curios about this considering that it is based on Gentoo.
overdrank
October 23rd, 2009, 12:24 AM
I was just curios about this considering that it is based on Gentoo.

According to sabayonlinux (http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy#Testing_Branch_.2F_Rolling _Releases)
Testing Branch / Rolling Releases
mdmarmer
October 23rd, 2009, 02:57 PM
It's not a true rolling release.

If you try to upgrade from one version to another without doing an install, the probability of success for most users is probably 50% or less. I think the chance of a good upgrade from one version to another without a new install is much less than in Debian or Ubuntu.

Mike
linux4life88
October 25th, 2009, 03:34 PM
Thank you very much for the help. It sounds a lot like Zenwalk. Zenwalk has the current ranch which has set release dates like Ubuntu but it also the snapshot branch which basically turns Zenwalk into a rolling release. Sabayon is an interesting distribution that I will have to defiantly keep an eye on in the future. My only complaint with it is that it is really bloated.