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 we registered it.
We did not build any of that, and we are not continuing it. We 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 ours: 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 people who publish Still Seeding. We are not Fabio Erculiani and are 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
Nothing is published yet. The ten pieces below are the launch slate, in the order they ship. Each one is listed here with the promise it has to keep; none of them is a link until the piece is written, because a title that goes nowhere is worse than an empty page. Dates appear in the rail once a piece is published.
- Wave 1 RR4 → RR64 → Sabayon: the complete release history Every release of the DVD that became Sabayon, in order, with what changed in each — and where the surviving images legitimately live now.
- Wave 1 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 reports contained, and where the archives live now.
- Wave 1 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.
- Wave 2 Gentoo ships 89 GB of binaries now Sabayon spent a decade arguing that Gentoo needed binary packages. Gentoo now ships them. Whether that means the idea won, or the project lost.
- Wave 2 The five candidates for “Sabayon in 2026” Five living systems that do some of what Sabayon did, compared on documented properties, with who each one is actually for.
- Wave 2 Your distro just died: the first thirty days A concrete checklist for a machine whose distribution no longer exists — what to do in week one, what can be migrated in place, and how long you can safely keep running.
- Wave 3 MocaccinoOS: the successor, or the estate? What actually carried over from Sabayon to MocaccinoOS, what did not, and whether “successor” is the right word.
- Wave 3 Booting a 2006 live DVD on 2026 hardware How to see a twenty-year-old Linux desktop again — the four things that stop it booting on modern hardware, and the way around each.
- Wave 3 matrixOS: Fabio Erculiani’s third distro, and the caveat he put in the announcement What matrixOS actually is, how immutable-and-atomic squares with source-based, and the warning its author gave that every write-up buried.
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Wave 3
Funtoo announced its own death and then took it back
What “hobby mode” actually commits anyone to, whether
ego syncstill works, and what a distribution is once it stops promising anything.
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.