Welcome

Technology should be fun, powerful and free. Funtoo is a community of people who are dedicated to creating a supportive environment for learning about and using free software, led by Daniel Robbins.

Funtoo Linux (distrowatch) is a community-developed Linux meta-distribution based upon Gentoo Linux. Funtoo Linux is optimized for the best possible performance on the latest Intel and AMD hardware. See what we support.

If you use Funtoo Linux, you are welcome to contribute to its development via code.funtoo.org without going through any special procedure or complicated approval process. See Development Guide for more information on how to contribute to Funtoo. We also have YouTube video tutorials to help you get started.

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Funtoo Compute Initiative is an active Funtoo and container-based compute infrastructure that our community members use and which hosts Funtoo projects. It is a DIY-style initiative with full documentation, designed to allow you to deploy extremely powerful compute infrastructures at very low cost, using new or used server hardware. You can use our compute resources or roll your own.

Funtoo Containers on our own infrastructure are available from $15/mo.

Keychain helps you to manage SSH and GPG keys in a convenient and secure manner. It acts as a front-end to ssh-agent and ssh-add, but allows you to easily have one long running ssh-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one ssh-agent per login session.

Bentōō Linux is a Funtoo Linux-based distribution from Brazil, designed for new users with an easy-to-install GNOME and Plasma as options. Please check it out!

Learn Linux! Awk, Bash, Sed and more. Many tutorial-style articles are available, many of which were originally featured on the IBM developerWorks site.

Full Article List

Funtoo Continues in "Hobby Mode" (2024-08-13) All Good Things Must Come to an End... (2024-07-26) 1.4-release is being retired in 2024! (2023-12-26) Funtoo Linux Summer 2023 Newsletter (2023-09-12) Funtoo Telegram Channel Retired (2023-07-05) Funtoo Linux April/May 2023 Newsletter -- Moving to Markdown (2023-06-16) Several Funtoo Containers Offline (UPDATE) (2023-06-06) Funtoo Linux March 2023 Newsletter -- Metatools and CDN (2023-04-26) Funtoo Linux February 2023 Newsletter! (2023-03-08) Funtoo Linux January 2023 Newsletter! (2023-02-14)

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