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Welcome
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Funtoo Linux is a Linux-based operating system that is a variant of Gentoo Linux, led by Daniel Robbins, the creator and former Chief Architect of Gentoo Linux, who serves as benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of the project.
Funtoo Linux is optimized for your CPU for the best possible performance, supporting Intel Core i7, AMD FX Processors, and others. See what we support. See Distinctives, below, for more information about what makes Funtoo Linux special.
Support Funtoo to help us grow! Donate $15 per month and get a free Funtoo Virtual Container.
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Resources
View the Funtoo Linux FAQ for answers to common questions.
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Join us - Create a Funtoo account, and then add yourself to our Usermap!
Our resources: -- also see the Go menu:
- Create a Funtoo account (Auth FAQ)
- forums.funtoo.org - our new forums!
- bugs.funtoo.org, our bug tracker (Instructions).
- larrythecow.org, Gentoo blog service.
- kernel-seeds.org, kernel build help.
- git.funtoo.org, our cgit repository browser.
- Support Funtoo to help our project grow.
- Get a Funtoo Virtual Container.
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Getting Started
We encourage you to install Funtoo Linux, and get involved in our user community. Get to know fellow Funtoo Linux users on our forums. If you have any improvements or find any bugs in Funtoo Linux, you are strongly encouraged to report them on our bug tracker. We take all bugs seriously, and all work performed on Funtoo Linux is tracked on our bug tracker, for purposes of transparency.
Funtoo Linux has a very active IRC community on Freenode, in the #funtoo channel, and you are encouraged to hang out online with us.
Expand the wiki!
The How to 'wiki' will help get you started on wiki editing. Have a look at Requested-Documents and pages that need to be updated.
See Ebuilds for a list of all ebuild pages, and Adding an Ebuild to the Wiki for information on how to add one.
Distinctives
Funtoo Linux is a meta-distribution, which means it is built (fully automatically) with the functionality and optimizations that you want, not what some distro maintainer thought was best for you. Funtoo Linux packages are installed directly from source code, thanks to the Portage ports system, inspired by the FreeBSD ports system, written in Python and with full advanced package management functionality.
Benefits for desktops: leaner, optimized, faster system. Additional benefits for servers: enable only what you actually need to reduce attack surface, thus improving security.
We use Git for all our development, and we also use Git to deliver our ports tree to you.
In contrast to Gentoo Linux, we offer a number of innovations, including our extensive use of git, our profile system, boot-update boot management tool, our incredibly flexible template-based networking scripts, Metro distribution build system, support of Debian, RHEL and other kernels, enhanced Python support, Portage mini-manifests, user-centric distribution model, and a large number of community infrastructure improvements.
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