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I have been using gentoo linux for a long time with my netbook and old laptop. I tried funtoo linux and I found it even better than gentoo, though it is based on gentoo, but anyway. Now I'm looking for an easier alternative to funtoo and gentoo, as in a distro, that has a stable system like portage.

I have been searching for a long time and I haven't found a "real" alternative to gentoo/funtoo.

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Hi Ilariel and welcome to Super User. As far as answers go, it's hard to make specific suggestions against a criteria of 'has lots of potential'. If you have any particular needs then perhaps it would help to edit and add them to your question, but as it stands it's really too vague to answer. – Linker3000 Oct 25 '11 at 0:39
A lot of distributions apply here. Please note that portage can be installed on a lot of distributions, whether or not native or through some fiddling. It's hard for us to know what defines how much easier the distribution has to be and how stable the package manager has to be. Please explain us what you would consider a real alternative, because we could list about any distribution as an answer. Why not try some different ones and see what you like? Linux Distribution Chooser is a good start! :) – Tom Wijsman Oct 25 '11 at 0:54
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I'm supposing your issue with gentoo is the install process, which is a little complicated (and i wish they'd just walk you through setting up a graphical system, instead of setting up a non graphical one, then needing to compile your kernel again for x)

I'd probably look at sabayon - its a gentoo derivative that supports both portage and its own package manager , has a rolling release series, and you can do things the gentoo way post install if need be.

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