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Daniel Robbins | |
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| Born | |
| Education | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Organization | Funtoo Technologies |
| Known for | Free software,Hacker,Gentoo, Funtoo |
| Website | www |
Daniel Robbins is acomputer programmer who founded theGentoo Linux project and was its former chief architect. In 2008, he launched theFuntoo project, afreeLinux distribution based on Gentoo, and he became the project's lead developer and organizer. He works inAlbuquerque, New Mexico atZenoss, and as president for Funtoo Technologies.
During his time as a system administrator at theUniversity of New Mexico inAlbuquerque, Robbins formed his own distributionEnoch Linux, which was later renamedGentoo Linux in 2002.
Gentoo struggled to create abusiness model that would support its key developers, like many otherfree software projects at the time.[1] Robbins resigned as Chief Architect in April 2004.[2] He formed the Gentoo Foundation and transferred all Gentoointellectual property to it, so that Gentoo would be run as a full community-based model. He rejoined the project for a short time from August 2006,[3][4] becoming a developer again in February 2007 and joining the amd64 team[5] but resigned in early March 2007.[6]
There have been several high-profile criticisms[7][8] of the way Gentoo has run since Robbins left, such as: "...since the resignation of Gentoo's founder and benevolent dictator from the project in 2004, the newly established Gentoo Foundation has been battling with lack of clear directions and frequent developer conflicts...".[9]
In mid-July 2007, it emerged that Robbins was still technically the legal president of the Gentoo Foundation.[10][11]
In 2008, Robbins began to work onFuntoo, a project created to allow him to work on extending the technologies originally created for Gentoo.[12]
In 2024, Robbins announced that he would shut downFuntoo without searching a handover.[13]
Robbins' move toMicrosoft, in May 2005, attracted attention within the Linux community,[14][15] which has historically had a combative relationship with Microsoft. He described his role working forBill Hilf as "...helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects..."[16]
However, Robbins resigned less than a year later in January 2006 due to frustrations that he was unable to fully utilize his technical skills in this position.
Later in 2006, he joined FSMLabs in Socorro, New Mexico, to work onRTLinux.
Daniel Robbins is also president ofFuntoo Technologies, a consulting firm founded in 2006 and located inAlbuquerque, New Mexico.
I very much want to find a way to turn the Gentoo Linux project into a profitable enterprise. My main motivation in wanting to do this is so I can stop living from paycheck to paycheck and focus my professional efforts exclusively on Gentoo Linux development. Many of our developers would like to do the same thing.
