Differences between Gentoo and Funtoo

Windmill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 105

What are the differences between Gentoo and Funtoo?

ubersolid · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Finland

http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux#Differences_between_Funtoo_Linux_and_Gentoo_Linux
that explains it, I think

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

666threesixes666 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:45 am Post subject:

mmmm yeah git! i dont like funtoos site structure at all, but alas git speaks to me. revision control vs sync against server x out in space = win....

Yamakuzure · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:21 am Post subject:

The "cvs-to-git" portage tree migration project is underway. For a few years now. I hope they'll eventually manage to get it done, but alas, it's a huge thing.
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Windmill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 105

So that's essentially the difference? Updating system?

ulenrich · Veteran Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 1480

When I was begining with Gentoo I had no luck at all with mixing Gentoo+stable and some unstable frontends I was interested in: I didn't get all the dependencies when I was a newbie.
Therefore I tried Funtoo. At that time it was kind of a guided Gentoo~unstable:
All of the toolchain kept stable mixed with fancy new stuff: desktop,browser etc...
... Just what a newbie wants to have, just fun.

666threesixes666 · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:45 am Post subject:

drobbins the creator of gentoo is at the helm of funtoo, where the council and/or foundation??? are at the helm of gentoo... funtoo is basically his playground to do what ever the heck he wants... where this is more community driven & commanding stability/reliability. they do not have systemd, though they have/will have a separate build called FOAM supporting systemd. drobbins is 39... i was asking him stuff tonight.

http://linuxcrazy.com/podcasts/LC-42-drobbins.ogg

listen to this podcast of linux crazy interviewing him.

Shamus397 · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 218 Location: Ur-th

The GIT integration with Portage is one major difference (and it's freaking awesome), and the other major difference is how the networking is handled. Other than that, they tend to be more aggressive in masking the toolchain (and other system critical packages)--which is understandable.

As a user of both, I really, really hope that Gentoo gets the GIT integration into portage soon!

666threesixes666 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:33 pm Post subject:

i just installed funtoo last night on my desktop. git is amazingly fast at syncing. maxing out my connection. some gentoo packages are a bit more stable than my "current" tree. so far, i feel like i was living in the stone age using gentoo. the funtoo git tree is hosted on github.

aCOSwt · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:59 pm Post subject:

peje · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 100

Hi another difference -> profiles: