Zynot Foundation Forks Gentoo

deque_alpha writes "The Gentoo Linux distribution has been forked by a group of Gentoo developers and community members. This fork is being placed under the control of the non-profit Zynot Foundation, which will "hold the source code, trademarks, and any other intellectual property developed by and for its community." The goals of the fork include improving stability and cross-platform reliability to bring the Gentoo-developed technology to the enterprise and embedded arenas." Another reader points out Zack Welch's long article at Zynot.org on reasons for forking the Gentoo distribution.

Comments

Re:It's only tyranny when someone else is in charg

[rainwalker]

If you read a bit further,

...I would expect to no longer need to exercise dictatorial control after the bylaws have been initially established...new directors will be elected by the community...

and so on. This document implies that he himself could be removed from the board of directors once it is run completely by the community, although I doubt that would happen.

Daniel Robbins' Reply:

[kikawala]

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/ 9606

Re:Hardneded Gentoo

[KentoNET]

You miss the point, though. The true admin of the server can still do whatever he wants, by authenticating with the SELinux policy system. Even if the server gets rooted, it's all for naught without being able to authenticate with SELinux. If you understand anything about security, you know how valuable that can be for a system that needs hardcore security.

Re:Where is a fork going to get the bandwidth?

[Arker]

Gentoo requires lots of donated hosting and bandwidth. The amount of resources used in rsync alone must be huge. Where is this guy going to get the backing to make this even feasible?

If you read the article he claims that much of their existing infrastructure is either directly or indirectly on loan from him...