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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. My goodness... by Tom7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is probably the most doomed pipe-dream OS I've ever seen.

    First of all, their screenshot is a picture of gnome with an ugly color scheme and lots of stolen anime graphics.

    Second, their website is uuugggggly. To make anyone care about a "cool" OS (or even window manager theme, if that's what they're actually doing), they're going to need it to look good, and that means having a graphic artist.

    Third, anime.

    Goooood luck...

  2. This gota be... by sinserve · · Score: 1, Troll

    The first kernel "hacker" to use Gedit

    I have a sudden urge to laaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuugh AAHAHAHA.

  3. This is an out and out lie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll
    I was curious about this. It sounded too ambitious to be real, so I pulled the FreeBSD 4.5 source and the Lain source.

    I was surprised to find that there were indeed differences between the current LainOS and the current FreeBSD distribution. My surprise was short-lived however, as I found that the reason for the differences were that they had stopped applying patches! Many exploits discovered in 4.4 and 4.3 still haven't been patched!

    Apart from this, the only difference is the addition of a few ports of anime graphics, Sawfish as the default window manager, and a bunch of packages REMOVED. There's no apache or ssh, and telnet-ssl is broken. It's IMPOSSIBLE to make a secure Lain system!

    If you really want in on this, get FreeBSD 4.5, get their few ports of copyright-violation anime bitmaps, and for god's sakes -- DON'T TOUCH the rest!

    I'm afraid of burning my karma by speaking out against what -sounds- like a neat project, so I'm posting this anonymously. :/