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ekkoBSD 1.0 BETA1B Released
ragedev writes "Michael J. Denton, Public Relations for ekkoBSD, has announced the latest BETA release of the ekkoBSD Operating System to the public today. The new Operating System currently supports the ia32 (most PC's) platform, and will be followed soon with sparc64 and Pegasos II PPC support."
How did that title make it through the lameness filter?
So why another fork really? Security? You got OpenBSD, a standard OS, relatively well-known in the security circles and affiliated with many major security projects. Many VPN clients are benchmarked against this OS. Stability? yahoo and ftp.cdrom.com use FreeBSD. Can you convince us you can beat that? Extentions? Linux and NetBSD have numerous ports. Linux is used on many mainframes and microcontrollers as standard OS.
So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?
I'm concerned because I'm an OS buff, have used Plan9 and Xenix and Linux on a dreamcast. I'm just not sure I along with so many other alternative OS users should take this one seriously beside the reasons you've listed. If it is just a pet project for yourself... thats cool. We'll just go back to the BSD.
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Even after looking at the web site, I don't see the point. Is it supposed to be a user friendly BSD?
As a default installation, ekkoBSD gives you an E-Mail server, Web Server, ssh, and several other services that would normally need to be added and secured.
This just sounds like bloat to me. Although, if you can pick a configuration you want, and have it update and patch automaticaly, that might be nifty. I can't see all that many BSD/*NIX users who want a web server installed by default though.
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Good christ man, that was horrible. I don't mean like "lame, but admittedly funny as hell," but I really mean, "wow, that was retarded."
What kind of sound does death make? Even more abstract and non-extant, what is the sound of one OS dying?
"Linux? Is that pronounced Lee's nux? You know, like the sound of Lee's nuts banging together?"
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switching to Macintosh?
BSD needs better driver support and more software before I'll use it
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Well, I certainly didn't mean to sound like a dick, but yeah. I bet it would've been funny if someone said to me outloud, especially if it were the middle of a late night nerding session and I was kind of drunk or just sleep deprived. :)
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less funny to you? I hope I didn't wreck it for you...
I personally have no problems with drivers, but I am a pretty vanilla guy from that standpoint. I can't say I like Linux much more than BSD, but I only use Linux on my file server because it happens to suck the least out of the options- but it still sucks.
My main OS is Squeak Smalltalk on a base of WinCE. Which has me marked as insane I'm sure.
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I'm a Gentoo/Knoppix guy with a touch of Win2000 for games and Kazaa. I, and all my nerd friends, believe that BSD is a superior way to design an operating system, but it's tragic lack of external hardware and software support make it virtually unusable as a desktop. Linux, however, is a decent desktop for the computer-literate user, so I'll stick with it until they port MacOSX to x86 ;)
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
The real question: does "linus" rhyme with "penis" or "vaginas"?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Pretty much -all- of the commits I've seen had to do with syncing with the OpenBSD tree. Just how much code has the ekkoBSD project itself written?
I am a very literate computer user, but that has nothing to do with whether I will use Linux or not. My problem is how closed most OSes are, including Linux and Windows. I do not mean closed in the sense of OSS/FSF but in the way apps, systems, and the user interacts with eachother. OS X is better in this respect, but it doesn't take it to the level I expect. Future Windows may improve, depending on how .NET is woven into the mesh.
For me, an OS should have the seamless interop, and I the user and developer, should have the ability to change anything and everything with the way my OS works, grab data structures from within other apps, etc etc without having to waste a lot of time and energy conforming to a very remote and ugly API.
Oh bother... I am not explaining this well at all. But tis my dream. Kind of like Emacs, but not just an overgrown editor.
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I wonder if it will work on this Toshiba laptop - OpenBSD is fine and so is NetBSD, but I had a problem with FreeBSD - network driver wouldn't work.
Another bsd will give us more choice, so good luck to them.
And why would any sane Free/Open/Net-BSD user want to switch? I thought that the idea behind OpenBSD is that nothing is enabled by default and that if you want it, you enable it yourself. Besides, I don't know if I like the idea of one man directing development -- when one man answers the FAQ in first person, that is mildly disturbing. Further, how it is any different from DragonflyBSD? And trying to make BSD cooler, and more like Linux I think is a mistake.
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While people may be entitled to do their own thing, fracturing the community only breeds confusion and slows advancement, both technically and politically ( i.e. market )
Look at the Linux camp, part of the problem of adoption is the convoluted nature of it. Its hard to take something serious when you have TOO many unstable options.. ( unstable in the sense if they will be around tomorrow, and support you.. ) It makes rational decisions tenuous at best.
A better choice would be to make the 'improvements' available to the main BSD projects, as we don't need things watered down any more then they already are ( personally think the 3 major forks should be re-combined so we can all benefit from each others work, not have a bunch of pet-projects running around )
Same goes for Linux.. there needs to be predictiable consistency in business.
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