# Add support for Freetz

**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/add-support-for-freetz/2167
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [March 12, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/add-support-for-freetz/2167 "2017-03-12T20:04:27Z")
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### Author: ![DL6ER](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dl6er/32/281_2.png) [@DL6ER](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DL6ER)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/add-support-for-freetz/2167/4 "2017-03-14T18:23:53Z")

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Have a look on my post here:

> [@Add Gentoo as a supported OS](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/just-a-quick-question-about-gentoo/2011/5):
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> I used Gentoo myself back in the days where installing OpenOffice on it took about 12 hours (about 10 or more years ago). At some point I stopped using it because of not seeing any major benefit or speed compared to the distros that ship pre-compiled binaries. I have never tried it since then, but I doubt that it would really make a difference in most cases. According to distrowatch it is ranked as no. 45, which is not really impressive... Supporting it requires a number of changes in our autom…

Although this is for Gentoo, it shines some light on what would be needed in general in order to support new operating systems.

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