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What was Funtoo?

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It’s been ages but I remember Funtoo as a kinda quirky, opinionated (I think/hope that’s the right term? 😅 ) fork/offshoot of Gentoo by Gentoo’s originator that was intended to do things in ways deemed more sensible and allow more authority by the user. The only specific thing I remember is they dumped systemd or at least allowed building a system that didn’t use it.* 🤷 I only tried it once and not for long so that’s all I’ve got, sorry 😅

* Very bad memory on my part, should probably have just said something something systemd or such 😅

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6 points

That’s essentially it, but Gentoo has never required systemd.

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Hmm. Fears of it being required? Irritation at it being the default? I’m sure there was something 😅 Ugh, now I’m embarrassed and feel like a fake Gentooer v.v

Wikipedia says Funtoo doesn’t even support systemd 🤔 I guess that was it. … Kinda weird to not support it at all but whatever, I guess. Gentoo take me baaaack 🥺 … When I’ve got a system that won’t melt if I try to build anything on it 😅

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Welp, I guess that decides for me whether I’ll be going to Gentoo or Funtoo once I get a real box again. Seems kinda odd to just end it like that. Whole distro’s just over now? :-\

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24 points

Distro ended guys, please move along, nothing to see!

(why?)

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19 points

Time to migrate to Funnertoo

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15 points

Or maybe Funtwo

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7 points

Entertainingaswell

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2 points

Funtoo 2

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2 points

Funtutu

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15 points

At least hand it off to someone instead of just letting it die facedown.

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Handing it off to someone creates a whole new set of second hand responsibility, if the new maintainers go on to add something malicious.

a la: xz backdoor

The creator was shunned until everyone figured out he had handed it off to someone else.

If someone wants to continue, they can always fork it.

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25 points

Appreciate the clarification, you just learned me one. Gotta love the discourse on Lemmy.

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21 points

It’s open source, isn’t it? If anyone is really interested, they can fork it.

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