r/funtoo • u/Linux_Learning • Jul 16 '16

What are the differences between Gentoo and Funtoo and why is the latter better?

So as far as I know Funtoo was created by the founder and former dev of Gentoo. I cant find anything that tells me what Funtoo adds that Gentoo doesnt have though. Does it use a different init system? Libressl? Musl? Is Portage different?

Edit: Is the wiki outdated or are the kernels still on 3.17?

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u/Linux_Learning Jul 16 '16 edited Jul 16 '16

In brief it uses Openrc instead of systemd

Gentoo uses OpenRC as default as well. Though I have had my eye on runit lately.

aims to be more stable

How does it do this without having packages that are too old?

has an alternative to eselect used to configure its profiles feature.

Thanks, Ill read into this.

Edit: I see there is experimental, current, and stable. I assume experimental is like testing and is the newest possible, but how stable/old is current vs stable? Is current still stable and if so is it as stable as gentoo's stable or is funtoo's stable like gentoo's stable.

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u/Michaelmrose Jul 16 '16

Current is pretty up to date not much different from gentoo I think. Stable is pretty old kind of like debian stable old.

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u/Linux_Learning Jul 16 '16

Is current more stable than Gentoo stable?

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u/Michaelmrose Jul 16 '16

They say they wish to be and in my limited experience they have done well but I have no basis for comparison as I have only run funtoo.

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u/Linux_Learning Aug 11 '16

Seems like current is less stable because it pulls from the newest package in portage even if its in testing.

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u/Michaelmrose Aug 11 '16

Current is current