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Anime + FreeBSD = LainOS

Posted by timothy on from the takes-all-kinds dept.

Chris Gilbert writes: "This Thursday, a new *BSD OS project went online which is entitled 'LainOS.' LainOS is for the most part a heavily recoded version of FreeBSD 4.5 made to eventually resemble Lain's Navi from the anime 'Serial Experiments Lain.' It sports an animated splash screen, a more fully integrated X server, and a custom graphical login interface, amoung several other improvments over FreeBSD and Linux. You can check the homepage out at http://www.lainos.org ."

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  1. I created an OS last night by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call it "Lain98". What I did was I heavily recoded significant portions of the background image on my Windows98 machine.

  2. Hype. by Picass0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The more I think of it, the more this bugs me.

    If you go to the LainOS ebscite, you see this is nothing but a brand new project with a Sawfish theme as it's sole finished component.

    So all they needed to do to make the front page of /. is write and say "Hey guess what we're doing?"

    How many good pieces of software come out that never get decent coverage on Slashdot? Buttloads. But these lamers put out a FILE and there they are. Frontpage of Slashdot.

    Makes ya wonder who you have to blow around here.

  3. What a piece of shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    • Draw some kewl 'skinz'
    • Get a page at sourceforge with all the other "no files available yet!" 0.0.0 release software
    • Get story at slashdot
    Kids, playing with the Gimp does not make you an OS designer. SKINZ do not make you a coder. Go back to masturbating.