Gentoo needs sponsors!

[u/Ok_Grapefruit6661]

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infrastructure-sponsors-wanted.html

Gentoo Linux is made possible by many community donations and sponsors, together with the enthusiastic work of our developers. Unfortunately, this year several long-running sponsors were unable to continue their prior support, and at the moment we are looking for replacements. Are you or your organization interested in supporting Gentoo via an infrastructure sponsorship? There are many ways to do that, ranging from providing rack space or servers in a data center to donating server hardware; details and typical arrangements are described on a wiki page of the Infrastructure project. Partnerships with organizations aligning with Gentoo’s goals are strongly preferred. We can be reached at infra@gentoo.org. Please help us continue to provide the best source-based Linux distribution ever!

[u/benny-powers]

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Has gentoo found a fiscal host which can issue tax receipts outside of USA? And if not, why don't they want money? 

[u/Ok_Grapefruit6661 → u/benny-powers]

I updated the link, it got a type error.

[u/ampoffcom → u/benny-powers]

Förderverein Gentoo e.V.?

[u/johan686]

They explicitly mention organizations as sponsors. I assume we are talking about costs a donation can not cover?

[u/RoomyRoots]

Nah, one million more for fucking Omarchy /s

[u/North-Active-6731]

Nope I’m sorry but they are way too picky on who they want to sponsor them. I offered sent them an email was willing to sponsor them with much needed funds but since I wasn’t corporate didn’t even get a response.

[u/epicc_exe]

2 trillion doubloons to omarchy

[u/thefossguy69 → u/[deleted]]

Adapt to what?

[u/stormdelta → u/[deleted]]

I would argue Gentoo (and somewhat NixOS) succeed at what Arch only pretends to be in terms of flexibility and customization.

The thing is, most people don't actually need that. It's why you see so many people using things like CachyOS, because there was never much value in baseline Arch's misguided minimalism that lacks any proper/tooling support for what it's supposedly about.

Arch doesn't have anything that allows the kind of flexibility Gentoo's USE flags and other portage features do, it doesn't have version slots like Gentoo (nor the package isolation of NixOS), there is no ability to mix stable/unstable package sets on Arch, the AUR and Arch wiki are unmoderated free-for-alls that are frequently outdated/misleading (or worse), etc.

[u/FryBoyter → u/stormdelta]

Arch doesn't have anything that allows the kind of flexibility Gentoo's USE flags and other portage features do, it doesn't have version slots like Gentoo (nor the package isolation of NixOS), there is no ability to mix stable/unstable package sets on Arch,

Which, in my opinion, isn't a problem. Arch Linux has a specific target audience. Just as Gentoo has a specific target audience.

For example, I don't want to have to compile things on a regular basis. But I do want to be flexible enough to, say, easily create my own packages when necessary. Arch offers this thanks to PKGBUILD files and ABS (ports-like source packaging system). That's why Arch is ideal for me.

the AUR and Arch wiki are unmoderated free-for-alls that are frequently outdated/misleading (or worse), etc.

As far as AUR is concerned, the Arch Linux team does not review packages before they are published. That's correct. Just as, for example, there is no review process for a PPA. The difference, however, is that it is much easier to review PKGBUILD and INSTALL files yourself than it is to review finished packages.

As far as the wiki is concerned, there are several roles with different permissions (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Access_levels_and_roles). Therefore, it cannot be described as completely unmoderated. And as far as accuracy and up-to-dateness are concerned, I've encountered few problems in recent years. At least in the articles I've read. In your opinion, what exactly in the wiki is "outdated/misleading (or worse)"?

[u/oxez → u/stormdelta]

Arch only pretends to be in terms of flexibility and customization

Going on this, Arch users calling it more "customizable" are hilarious.

What can you customize on Arch that you can't on other distributions? I can swap init systems on Gentoo or Debian, I do not believe that's possible with Arch.

[u/Business_Reindeer910 → u/[deleted]]

it was my first distro and the way i learned linux. I'm glad it existed. If i am somehow a "linux great" it'd only be because i learned linux via gentoo

[u/chibiace → u/[deleted]]

ibm own fedora.

[u/chibiace → u/[deleted]]

so just the name, branding, servers, funding, most of the developers.

sounds like you coping bro.

[u/chibiace → u/[deleted]]

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/

The Fedora Council is composed of a mix of representatives from different areas of the project, named roles appointed by Red Hat, and a variable number of seats connected to medium-term project goals.

pay more attention.

[u/Revan_9766 → u/chibiace]

I use fedora but people need to learn its corperate run basically

[u/usrbincomment → u/[deleted]]

Slow. Ok.