Sabayon is a Gentoo-based, Linux distribution with support for binary package installation. Installation images for the major desktop environments are regularly published and updated. The KDE and GNOME 2 editions of the latest, Sabayon 6, were released just last week. June 23, 2011, to be precise. This article presents a comprehensive review of the KDE edition. A review of the GNOME 2 edition will be published sometime next week.

Before delving into the review, I should point this out about Sabayon 6. When the graphical package manager, Sulfur, is started, a message from the package maintainers duly informs you that (message in screenshot)