Gentoo Creator Daniel Robbins: Making Linux Free and Flexible

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Open source software is a passion for some and a business for others. Daniel Robbins was driven by a need to make Linux better than he found it. Robbins created two Linux distros: Gentoo and Funtoo. He created Gentoo Linux during his time as a systems administrator at the University of New Mexico. Funtoo, meanwhile, is a project that Robbins created to extend the technologies for Gentoo. “I found that I could build my own distribution,” Robbins said. “That is what led me into creating Gentoo.”

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