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ekkoBSD Officially Dead
sniperu writes "The EkkoBSD team leader announced the project's premature death , only 12 days after their latest release . No clue is given about the causes of such an unespected end other than saying "It's been a stressful fun trip" . You can still get the last release from the downloads page . Get it while you can ."
ekkoBSD was the idea of a guy named Rick Collette... now if you spend a little time googling that name you'll see that this guy has had his named attached to a few failed linux distributions. And on the ekkobsd.org webpage he even says: "Rick Collette - I actually only provided the Intel hardware, colo, marketing, path to completion, etc. I didn't do any coding at all - so my involvement was strictly in starting and attempting to guide the project. " the Operative word here is "didn't do any coding at all" This guy is a about as close to human hot air balloon as it gets. He starts up some project, makes a lot of noise, doesn't do a damn thing except get other people to do the work for him. This is just another failed attempt for this guy. Perhaps he'll learn to stop trying to make poor ripoff's of existing operating systems and wasting peoples time.
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Ever heard of SPIROlinux? DeepLinux? Same guy, same story.
That's because it's a cut and paste from an old and outdated (Feb 2003) post (non-troll, or at least, non-anonymous) on freebsd-chat -- search the archives.
Some FreeBSD people are jerks, but that's true everywhere. And some people believe that FreeBSD-5 went in an over-complicated and ultimately unmaintainable direction, and I don't disagree that the delay in making it stable is alarming. (But people had the same worries about linux during the 2.3.x and early 2.4.x days.) And that doesn't mean FreeBSD-5 work is junk: things regularly get merged in from FreeBSD-5 to DragonFly.