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GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the obvious-migration-paths dept.

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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  1. First Post, yet no one cares by cybermint · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So much April Fools, so little news.

  2. It's MADNESS! by ColonelFubster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many of these must we be assalulted by? T3h funnays are lost.

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  3. Stop Complaining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. Live a Little... by warriorpostman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?

  5. /.ing whores. by jsrlepage · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you nearly killed their server, you slashdotting whores.

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  6. How is this by ColonelFubster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    insightful?

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  7. Re:ReactOS + CoLinux by SolusSD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    worst. question. ever. (your sig) why would I want to clone an anemic, badly designed, proprietary OS?

  8. Re:It's not noon yet! by joe_bruin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but how long until lunch?

  9. Serious Foolishness by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  10. This is Sheer Genius... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...building on the biggest strengths of two diverse platforms. They're combining the user-friendliness and intuitiveness of the UNIX command-line UI with the rock-solid elegant architectural foundations of Microsoft Windows.

    I think it's a sure winner.

  11. Read it wrong by gammygator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it beer:thirty yet? I read

    "Gentoo meta distribution based on the NT kernel"

    as

    "Gentoo mentally masterbates on the NT kernel".

    Jeesh.

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