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."

Comments

Something doesnt add up

[mnmn]

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.

Another BSD to try

[Bunyip Redgum]

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.

OOOH, OOHH -- let me download it....

[utlemming]

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.