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| question | answer | category | last updated |
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| question | answer | category | last updated |
| Do we plan on expanding support for other architectures, or focus on the currently listed hardware arches? | {{{answer}}} | December 18, 2020 | |
| Do you support Systemd? | Part of the distinctiveness of Funtoo Linux is its dependency-based OpenRC init system, so changing this would make it something other than Funtoo Linux. So we do not support systemd as part of Funtoo Linux.
We do support running modern versions of GNOME (currently 3.34 as of the time this FAQ entry was updated, in March 2020) even without systemd. We are planning to develop a new OpenRC-style init system, incorporating "next-gen" features, which will be comparable in functionality to systemd and offer some systemd compatibility where it makes sense. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| Do you use Gentoo Linux system profiles? | Funtoo Linux uses a novel multi-profile system which you can read about at Funtoo Profiles. It has a lot of cool functionality, including flavors, mix-ins and other cool things. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| Does Funtoo have an installer as an option? | Currently, Funtoo does not have an installer but relies on a streamlined version of the Gentoo installation process. We do pre-ship a pre-built universal kernel so that installation is less complex compared to Gentoo. | General | January 4, 2019 |
| Does Funtoo Linux have an overlay? | Funtoo Linux uses a system called kits, which organizes the Portage tree into logical groupings, such as xorg-kit, gnome-kit, etc. Kits are essentially overlays that are specially designed to work together. But our kits are not designed to be used directly with Gentoo Linux. Although it can be done (kits are essentially overlays,) they are not designed to work this way and you won't always get the right versions of packages. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| How did Funtoo Linux Begin? | Funtoo Linux was created by Daniel Robbins, the creator and former Chief Architect of Gentoo Linux, in late 2007, as a means to get Gentoo to build reliably (see Funtoo Linux History for an accurate timeline.) This led to the adoption of Metro, an automated build tool also developed by Daniel, to replace Gentoo's catalyst build tool for building Funtoo stages.
Some changes to Gentoo's Portage tree were needed to produce reliable stage3 builds of Gentoo, creating the need for Daniel to create a slight variant of Gentoo's Portage tree to support automated builds. This in turn created the need to maintain a forked Portage tree that also integrated recent upstream Gentoo changes. Daniel adopted git and worked with Zac Medico to integrate support for git-based Portage trees and mini-manifests into Gentoo's emerge command at a time when adoption of git by Gentoo had stalled. Over time, Funtoo Linux has continued to mature, supporting novel offerings such asdebian-sources and debian-sources-lts kernels, multiple system profiles, a wide selection of stages optimized for modern CPUs, support for systemd-less GNOME, and our new kits system. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| How do I become a Funtoo developer? | First, we want you to be a Funtoo Linux user. Funtoo Linux is a project run by users. Then, see Contributing. | Development | November 20, 2018 |
| How do I report a bug? | We have a bug tracker! :) See Reporting Bugs. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| How do I start using Funtoo Linux? | For information on how to start using Funtoo Linux, see the installation instructions. | General | November 20, 2018 |
| How do I tell whether to report a bug to Gentoo or Funtoo? | Let us figure this out for you. Report a bug to our bug tracker, and we will determine how to resolve the issue. See Reporting Bugs. | General | November 20, 2018 |
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