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ekkoBSD 1.0 BETA1B Released

Posted by timothy on from the yet-another dept.

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."

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  1. Something doesnt add up by mnmn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:Something doesnt add up by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative

      So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?

      Because Rick Collette wanted too? Mostly he didnt like the politics on OpenBSD. So he forked, all power to him.

      I know many BSD users who switched to Gentoo because it had better driver support, and the 2.6.x kernel is great for the desktop. Its nice to see BSD and Linux developers start working on both platforms, and playing nicely.

    2. Re:Something doesnt add up by RLiegh · · Score: 2, Funny

      "So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?"
      Perhaps to shut up all the people asking for free OpenBSD iso images?

    3. Re:Something doesnt add up by zangdesign · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So all I need to know is why should ekkoBSD exist?

      I used to ask the same thing - then I realized the correct answer is: why not? Even if all it does in it's entire lifetime is make five or six people happy then it has accomplished something.

      Damn. I hate when I get feeling all happy with the world.

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  2. Re:Why? by the+morgawr · · Score: 2, Interesting
    FYI, OpenBSD would have a better installer if the requirement wasn't that the ENTIRE install fit on a single floppy. (look at what freeBSD did with just 2) As it is that floppy is almost entirely full (to the point that adding and extra sentence puts it over the line).

    There was a project by some frech grad students to make a CD-based GUI installer. Don't know what the status is though. Check it out

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  3. active? by endx7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  4. Another BSD to try by Bunyip+Redgum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  5. OOOH, OOHH -- let me download it.... by utlemming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  6. Fractures by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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