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GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel
Enjoi writes "GeNToo is a version of the Gentoo meta distribution based on the NT kernel, (virtually) completely free of any Win32 code. It provides a complete text-mode Gentoo environment, with all GNU tools, Perl, Python and the other usual suspects. In addition, it comes with with full NT hardware driver support." Aptly named GeNToo, is it a step towards bringing Windows closer to open source?
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So much April Fools, so little news.
I know its April Fools but come on its not a half bad idea.
Why clone Unix when I can clone Windows instead. http://www.reactos.org
Let me be the first to say "What?"
Maybe this will make it easier for first posts?
funny munging
How many of these must we be assalulted by? T3h funnays are lost.
:-M
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
"Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator."
Gorkman
but then again, ain't we alls.
Just because you're paranoid does not mean that the world is not full of assholes.
Is this for real? Wow.
Taco only gets to blow off steam by trolling readers this much once a year.
Last year it was posting the evil bit story 12 times.
This year it's posting obviously parody/satirical stories, a little too obvious to be good April Fool's jokes as someone pointed out.
The page says it was updated 03/28/05. Maybe not an April Fools dealie?
also likes to beat a gag to death...It's an interesting form of humor.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2005 /. picks up on. There, now you can all go out and enjoy the day. Note: Definately read the article about Microsoft introducing World of Wordcraft, the first MMOWP.
Read that list and you won't need to hang out all day to see which ones
But... does it play ogg?
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Since Gentoo's mascot is "Larry the Cow," I think an aptly named mascot for "GeNToo" would be "Stinky the Cowpie."
If you're on the "best" coast, you've still got 15 minutes left!
Now, with all the april fools joke headlines, this is to much. you wan't be able to tell if a story is real or not on first glance! Oh, the inhumanity!
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it's bad enough waiting for traditional Gentoo to compile under normal circumstances, now I gotta wait for GeNToo to compile me a kernel too!?
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I think you suck too.
for Taco to dupe an April Fool's post.
Do you have ESP?
Serves them right tbh
I think this isn't real, but wouldn't this be just like the CoLinux discussed last year. Running the linux kernel as a process on the NT kernel just like a vertual server. I still don't really understand the purpose of such a piece of code since emulators would do the same job in a more abstract way. Anyway, will anything real be posted today?
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
Did anyone laugh? Maybe I'm getting grumpy in my old age but these jokes aren't even making me smile.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Come on, loosen up...this one was Funny! Way funnier than the space shuttle one.
Although, is there always this much fake-posting on April 1?
you nearly killed their server, you slashdotting whores.
This is my opinion. Everyone has a right to my opinion.
insightful?
:-M
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
In Other News... Farmer O'Brian is complaining about his pigs flying out of the pen. He's pretty sure they are flying towards the gates of hell, since it is nice and cool there ever since it began thawing from it's recent freeze. And stay tuned, when we get back we will tell you of a new product on the market that actually removes the dihydrogen monoxide from water!
The Technomancer
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."-
Error 404: Funny Not Found
my other computer is your Windows(tm) box...
4 more baby!
Let me be the second to say "What?"
Roland Pipsqueak is having a good day, I guess.
You mean, "emergely named", don't you...?
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
These. Posts. Stink.
Anyone? Anyone?
Leno makes people laugh...people just watch Letterman and think "Good God you're a fucking moron".
It wouldn't hurt to "Ask microsoft's Martin Taylor about Linux vs. windoze"?
He might fall for it... ye never know... it could be Halloween Papers version x...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
"He's pretty sure they are flying towards the gates of hell,..."
"Gates" should be capitalized, no?
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
First, if you carefully read the splash page, you'll notice that it incorrectly has a Copyright 2005 Disney Corporation notice above the Copyright 2005 Microsoft Corporation notice.
I think this is due to their addition of the unstable Hillary Duff song module to the platform, which as we all know has a required royalty payment, and is thus incompatible with most Open Source implementations, unless you're using a Sony DDR memory stick for data transfer, which includes the patch in its kernel. It's hard to access, though, so you have to mount the DDR with the mount -xpladocious parameter or it won't work.
Once you get past that, you'll see that they also had to bundle in a flawed version of GIMP that only includes man pages up to version 0.8.5 - not too hard to fix, but a bother nonetheless.
I think I'll wait till they get this release a bit more stable. Like maybe next year, is my guess, when they should go live on 1-Apr-2006.
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april fools after midday?
*happy dance* *happy dance* *doing the happy dance!*
:-D
If you check the FAQ for the project, they say that it is a REAL project! There's even installation instructions to get it up and running! Now if you bozos would stop slashdotting the damn thing into the next century, I might be able to try it out!
*happy dance* *happy dance*
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
It provides a complete text-mode Gentoo environment
/.ed)
Useless.
(And no, I didn't RTFA, TFA is
I am the maverick of Slashdot
I'm going to go read The Register.
Admins, you rock!
th'umor snot loss tommy!
|plastic....or gasoline?|
The screenshots leave much to be desired. Their bootlog.txt, likewise, looks hacked together from a standard NT boot and a CLI transcript. Plus, their Quick Install Reference mentions a "nt-isocreator.sh" script which is missing from the main page, pending a blessing from their lawyer friend.
Perhaps someone could check on #gentoo-nt on irc.freenode.net (also from the quick-install ref) to see what's up?
Assuming this is a joke, kudos to them for back-dating the page; I'm now curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day
consider yourself warned!
bo
bad_outlook
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Is this vague enough for you?
They say that the white smoke generator addition has a few bugs in it, but they haven't had to reboot in over three weeks.
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And I thought Gentoo for Solaris was a joke .... Maybe the Ubunu Co-Linux thing should have been announced tonight.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
WHAP!
You can have your god back when you are old enough to handle the responsibility.
Not me. I think it's wicked funny.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
the story was about them having a version that ran on NTFS.
Not all conservatives are stupid,
but it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- Hume
One day a year, one freaking day a year, people not only get a chance to but are expected to leave seriousness behind and have a little fun.
Slashdot is being slashdot and reporting on funny April 1st news for nerds from all the usual suspects (Gentoo, Gaming, Geek toys, Google, etc).
Now Colonel Stickinthemud go tie someones shoelaces together, tell your boss your project is done on time and within budget, and maybe even have a little fun.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose."
n/t
The April Fools "pranks" that I have come to respect the most are those that use the cover of a silly prank to challenge an idea or convention that's too ingrained to even bring it up without that cover.
Something like the Pope entering a purely vegetative state before making his thoughts known on the subject as they apply to him personally. You'd get roasted alive as a heathen and heretic for even mentioning this possibility, but properly couched in an April Fools story, it'd give the avenue to address a previously inexpressible idea (due to social conventions).
This type of Gentoo on NT is probably a good geek equivalent of that, but I'm disappointed that there are fewer examples of the trend. Admittedly, any real conversation probably wouldn't happen today (if ever on Slashdot), but using the cover of April Fools pranks to break social conventions is probably the best and most justifiable use of the day. I just wish more constructive discussion had been generated from expressing the inexpressible.
This isn't as crazy an idea as it sounds. Gentoo runs on several non-Linux systems as it is, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and OS X. Why not port Gentoo to cygwin, a suitably UNIX-like environment which already exists on windows? The required devtools are already available with cygwin, and could be used to bootstrap portage and the gentoo base system. Sounds fun.
Anonymous Luddite: "What do you think of the dehumanizing effects of the Internet?"
Andy Grove: "Not Much."
I think the NT microkernel might be portable, but is it really worth porting? Seems like the worst of both worlds; an unstable, flaky kernel supporting an immature front-end. If the idea of an OS/2 kernel to support a GUI were to come up, that would be worth doing.
Best regards.
This isn't an April Fools joke.
Gentoo for NT actually does exist:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoocygwin/
April Fools is the bane of all news junkies.
You still owe your $599 SCO license fee, you slack-off losers!
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
Of course they could have back-dated it, but Interix is real and does run as its own subsystem. This is by no means impossible or even outrageous.
I'm still in the mood for jokes today but I'd love to see some GOOOD creativity! This one is just childishly lame. Your ex just called....she's with the IRS now.
I think it's a sure winner.
"Will it float, will it float? Will it foat, Wiiiillll it floooaaaaatttt????!?!????"
Is it beer:thirty yet? I read
"Gentoo meta distribution based on the NT kernel"
as
"Gentoo mentally masterbates on the NT kernel".
Jeesh.
No Nyarlathotep, No Chaos
Know Nyarlathotep, Know Chaos
The group in charge of continued development of the Mozilla Suite has chose a name!
...doesn't Debian have more exposure to running on alternative kernels? (i.e. Debian/NetBSD, Debian/HURD)
Tards watch Leno because they like the hooting and pretty colors. People watch Letterman to be genuinely entertained.
They're American programs, so guess which one is winning in the ratings?
I emailed the on-duty editor with a plea of "less is more", but that effort was apparently washed away in a crapflood.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
*Hehehe* It looks like even making the suggestion that there is a way to discuss a controversial issue is enough to get slash moderators to mod you down. You should have stuck with a suitably inoffensive idea to try and get your message across.
Cheeeeeeesseeeesy!!
/. today.
C'mon it's not like they're even trying anymore.
In other news today, a man mated with his dog, he died due to a dog's infectious disease. Now his dog wife wants insurance money. His dog daughter wants to become a cat and marries George Bush.
See... that's not even trying. It sounds more interesting than all the corny news on
I think it is funny how they didnt even look to change the copyright date at the bottom of the page. 2001-2003. Last time I checked it was 2005.
/.'ed I can't log in.
Slashdot got
... i don't understand.
this could _so_ easily be real.
1) NT is a Mach Kernel, and has _three_ subsystems that i know of - POSIX, OS/2 and Win32. the POSIX subsystem has been implemented once by microsoft and independently by opennt.com (can't find them any more).
2) Cooperative Linux is a port of linux to userspace as a Win32 application.
it would actually be pretty sodding easy and doable.
I'd be more likely to believe these April Fool's articles if I saw a Cmdr. Taco dup or two...
According to this, they claim it is real.
"You must be kidding!
No, we're quite serious. Finally you can get the best of both worlds! The Win32 subsystem is such a mess, the Linux kernel is a mess. Once you have the GNU tools on the NT kernel, you get a very solid OS that even rivals Solaris 10 in many respects."
ENOUGH ALREADY! We got it... We got it...! Stop!!!!!!!!!!!
April 1st should be a day off for Slashdot.
For one thing, I would actually like to see this. For another thing, this is a fantastic example of the usability of open copyright licenses, a la Creative Commons in this case.
Because the Gentoo website is in the creative commons, a person was able to make this funny joke for us, without infringing on someone's copyright.
If aspiration is a virtue, achievement cannot be a vice.
Would this be the beginning of SKYNET?
and a very cool project. I cant wait to run the latest win32 opengl games on reactOS, as soon as it has a reasonable commandline and complete API. The last time I was so excited by an OS was when I discovered Linux in 1996. ReactOS will be the project to take desktop from Microsoft, and give it to un*x.
I ran the test iso on vmware, wasnt impressed. Plus it crashed a few times. However being a free project its here to stay, and can only grow.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Nobody cares!
Indeed, its a pity some mistook this comment as a troll, as it was simply criticising the editors. /. is better :)
I feel your pain dude, lets hope next April on
I check though the sub-groups for any interesting news that has come over the past week, stumble over some odd things to look at, and only then later check the date :)
:)
Kinda wish they'd take them down once the days over, it's not supposed to be april fools month, just the 1st.
But a nice gag anyway, first one I've fallen for in ages, mainly because I didn't have my guard up
Hi All,
# 2276493
:-)
I also saw this (namely on the gentoo-dev mailing list) and thought... why not? So, I've actually begun the job of porting Gentoo to SFU.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2276493.html
It's early days, and is nowhere near useful at this stage, but it's a start. Any Portage/Python Gurus, assistance would be greatly appreciated.