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ekkoBSD Officially Dead

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the crying-a-single-tear dept.

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 ."

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  1. Does this surprise anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    Some choice urls:
    http://linuxpr.com/releases/1319.html
    http ://lwn.net/2000/0323/a/deeplinux.html

    Ever heard of SPIROlinux? DeepLinux? Same guy, same story.