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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. 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.

  3. 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.