Practical jokes

This article serves as Article description::an archive for practical jokes that have undertaken - in good humor - around the greater Gentoo ecosystem and community.

The developers and community behind Gentoo have performed many practical jokes, a number of them on or around April Fools' Day. This kind of practical trickery and playfulness has been a tenet of Gentoo.

TODO: Find more evidence of jokes in Gentoo from 1999-2012.

The following text has been 'imported' from the Gentoo Linux Wikipedia article.


 * Rebranding
 * On April 1, 2021 the distribution "rebranded" itself as "Genchu" with the logo edited to appear as a kawaii anthropomorphic mouse, satirizing the anime and furry fandoms. The prank also satirized the adoption of systemd in other Linux distributions by temporarily setting it as the default init in their stage3 tarballs.


 * Wiki
 * On July 28, 2017, the Gentoo wiki had a satirical news announcement entitled 'Word crimes'. Embedded in the announcement was a link to the Weird Al] video of the same name.


 * Website
 * On April 1, 2015 the Gentoo Linux team, namely Alex Legler, Robin H. Johnson, and a few other associates, announced the launch of a "totally revamped and more inclusive website which was built to conform to the CGA Web™ graphics standards [...] with a 16-colour palette and an optimal screen resolution of 640 x 200 pixels". The joke website was displayed with the appearance of a CGA ("16-colour") palette. According to the release announcement, the new site was available via the Gopher protocol at gopher://gopher.gentoo.org/.


 * Live DVD
 * To salute the 2012 phenomenon, on December 21, 2012 Gentoo released an End Of World Edition Live DVD.


 * Install wizard
 * On April 1, 2012 an April Fools' joke named "Install Wizard" was "released" as part of the 12.1 Live DVD.