Funtoo arises from Daniel Robbins's experience with Gentoo (and prior to that Stampede).

Funtoo Linux History

Aug 25, 2010: Perl 5.12 stabilized in Funtoo.
Feb 1, 2010: Sunrise removed from Funtoo.
Jan 30, 2009: Perl 5.10 integrated into Funtoo.
Jan 8, 2009: Git support integrated into Portage.
Jan 6, 2009: Sunrise overlay merged into Funtoo.
Dec 15, 2008: Metro 1.2 released.
Nov 4, 2008: Metro 1.1 released.
Oct 18, 2008: First version of Metro, Linux automated build engine, released.
Aug, 2008: Daniel builds first unstable Gentoo stages -- requires modifications to upstream Gentoo tree.
Jul 2008: Daniel moves stages to 2008.0 profile.
Dec 2007: Daniel starts building Gentoo OpenVZ templates.
Dec 2007: Daniel starts building stable Gentoo stages.

From Inception to Gentoo 1.0+

Jun 10, 2002: Gentoo Linux 1.2 released. :) ^[1]
Apr 8, 2002: Gentoo Linux 1.1a released. :)
May 10, 2002: Gentoo listed as one of the top 10 Linux distributions on DistroWatch.
Mar 31, 2002: Gentoo Linux 1.0 released!!! ^[2]
Feb 16-17, 2002: Was in Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM.
Aug 14, 2001: New Gentoo logo/web site debut -- designed by me! Still in use today! :)
Dec 11, 2000: Gentoo 1.0 Release Candidate 3 released.
Nov 3, 2000: Gentoo 1.0 Release Candidate 2 released.
July 26, 2000: Gentoo 1.0 release "imminent", CVS online, and rsync "coming soon".
Late 1999: Must have came back to Enoch and done the Gentoo name change right about now (the "Gentoo" name was Bob Mutch's idea). Started incorporating some FreeBSD ideas into Enoch... Portage (as we know it today) was born.
Aug 1999: My new dual Celeron mobo would not run Linux; went to FreeBSD, Achim Gottinger kept Enoch going.
May 18-27, 1999: First version of Enoch released, according to LWN.net. My blurb for Enoch: "Enoch is an advanced GNU/Linux distribution for the x86 PC Architecture, designed to bring your Linux experience into a new dimension. Or something like that." ^[3]
Apr 1999: Was working on Enoch. Wrote xpak .tbz2 code that is still in Portage.
Nov 1998: Was using/developing for Stampede Linux at home, but had not (yet) started Enoch?
July 1997: Started a new position at University of New Mexico, was using Debian 1.3.