Distribution turned 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and development of a new distribution, in which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year, in which experiments were carried out to build a distribution kit built from source with optimizations for a specific equipment. A fundamental feature of Gentoo was the division into ports built from source (portage) and the minimum base system needed to build the main applications of the distribution. The first stable release of Gentoo took place three years later, on March 31, 2002.
In 2005 Daniel Robbins , donated Gentoo-related intellectual property to the Gentoo Foundation, and led the Microsoft Open Systems Research Lab (Microsoft Linux and Open Source Lab). 8 months later Daniel from Microsoft, explaining this step by the impossibility of fully realizing their abilities. In March 2007 Daniel to work on the Gentoo distribution, but after two weeks was forced to , because he faced negative attitudes and squabbles among the Gentoo developers.
In January 2008, Daniel tried to bring the project out of a managerial crisis, himself as president of the Gentoo Foundation (legally, he and ) and management model. There was an election in March, but Daniel proper support, after which he finally stepped aside from the development of Gentoo and is now developing an experimental distribution , which tries to improve the technologies used in Gentoo.
Source: opennet.ru