This site writes the publication of record for distributions that no longer have one: what shipped, on what date, why it stopped, and what a person still running it should do in 2026.
You probably arrived from a link written in 2006
From late 2005 until the middle of 2006 this address served a Gentoo-based installable live DVD called RR4 Linux, its 64-bit twin RR64, and the forum where the people running them asked each other why X would not start. In August 2006 the project was renamed Sabayon Linux and moved to its own domain. The domain lapsed, changed hands several times, and spent its last years as a casino affiliate site before I registered it.
I did not build any of that, and I am not continuing it. I registered the address because a working history needs a place to live, and because the links that still point here were written by people looking for exactly this subject. Everything published here is written here: nothing from the Internet Archive is reproduced, and titles, dates, URLs and counters are quoted as records rather than as prose.
This domain was lxnay dEsigN, the home of RR4/RR64 Linux — later Sabayon — from 2005 to 2006. It changed hands several times afterwards and was re-registered in 2026 by the publisher of Still Seeding. I am not Fabio Erculiani and am not affiliated with the Sabayon project, MocaccinoOS, matrixOS or the Gentoo Foundation.
Start here
- The Register — every distribution this site covers, in one table: born, last release, base, status, successor, and the date each status was last checked.
- About — who publishes this, how the pieces are researched, and what the address used to be.
- Corrections — the standing policy, and every material error, listed. It is live before there is anything on it.
The archive
Published pieces carry their date in the rail and are links. The rest of the launch slate is listed in the order it ships, each with the promise it has to keep; an unwritten title is never a link, because a title that goes nowhere is worse than an empty page.
- MocaccinoOS: the successor, or the estate? What carried over from Sabayon to MocaccinoOS and what did not, scored on people, code, repository and philosophy — including a primary-source answer to whether 26.08 is built on Gentoo or Funtoo, taken from the build definitions rather than the announcements.
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Funtoo announced its own death and then took it back
The July 2024 discontinuation headline is out of date, and so is the correction — Funtoo ended a second time in September 2025 and nobody reported it. What “hobby mode” committed anyone to, why
ego syncsucceeds and brings you nothing, and the five checks that tell the three kinds of distribution ending apart. - Your distro just died: the first thirty days A concrete checklist for a machine whose distribution no longer exists — what to freeze on day one, what actually got more dangerous, the Sabayon-to-Gentoo conversion worked in seven stages with a rollback for each, and the case for reinstalling instead.
- What happened to Sabayon Linux The complete shutdown timeline, from the last release to what is still shipping in 2026, with a checkable date on every step — the last blog post, the last build, the last mirror sync, the last commit, and what the old URLs answer with now.
- The five candidates for “Sabayon in 2026” Five living systems that do some of what Sabayon did — Redcore 2601, Calculate, MocaccinoOS 26.08, matrixOS and plain Gentoo with the binhost — compared on documented properties, with who each one is actually for.
- RR4 → RR64 → Sabayon: the complete release history Every release of the DVD that became Sabayon, in order, with what changed in each — how anyone moved a DVD image across a 2006 connection, and where the surviving images legitimately live now, with checksums.
- The board: what a one-man distro’s forum was actually reporting What 4,117 posts on a one-man distro’s forum were about, what the release report of 18 June 2006 actually contained, 481 surviving thread titles counted into the failures everybody hit and what you would do about each today — and where the archives live now.
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Gentoo ships 89 GB of binaries now
Sabayon spent eleven years arguing that Gentoo needed binary packages, and Gentoo now ships them — signature-checked by default since May 2026. What got absorbed, what did not, and every
equocommand with what to type instead. -
matrixOS: Fabio Erculiani’s third distro, and the caveat he put in the announcement
Gentoo plus OSTree, from the person who shipped a live DVD from this address in 2005 — with a disclaimer in its first commit saying not to run it on anything that matters. What the two-commit build deletes, why you cannot
emergeon the branch you boot, and whether immutable and source-based can coexist at all. - Booting a 2006 live DVD on 2026 hardware How to see a twenty-year-old Linux desktop again — the four blockers named and solved, a QEMU invocation with every flag justified from the documentation, a symptom-to-flag failure table, the Ventoy and bare-metal route, and the honest answer about the spinning cube.
Ten pieces is the launch slate, not the plan. After it, roughly one piece a month, on whichever distribution has a question worth answering — and the Register is updated whenever a status changes, published piece or not.