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New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced
An anonymous reader writes "Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo. The distribution, which has been underway for a couple of months and is based on ideas and experiences from his long work with Gentoo, features a new packaging format and several subprojects, such as a redesigned init system. Currently no installation medium is available but their package tree is public for the daring ones who want to play with the upcoming distribution. The developers strongly discourage any serious use though, as it's still highly experimental."
But does it run Linux?
Seriously, they treat this thing like they're trying to hype it. "It's not ready for users, not even developers!" The only thing it's ready for is Guatemalan Insane Asylum Inmates! Avert your eyes!
It is funny that they claim more progress working on this for six months than working on Gentoo for four years. Because of bickering and criticism. I can totally believe that. I wish them tons of success!
My work here is dung.
> Man I have to admit that after reading the site I really want noting to do with this distro.
That's good, because this distro wants nothing to do with you.
Yeah. That's right. Aptly named. Because boy, when I heard it described, "exherbo" just jumped out at me.
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... is not going to come from this.
It might be worth checking out just for that!
OK, I don't need to try it. However, I'm curious about one thing:OK, wikipedia has no clue what an "Exherbo" is. What is an "Exherbo" and why is it such an apt name? I don't speak Klingon, are there any Klingons here that can explain this to me?
From TFA I would guess that "Exherbo" means "fuck you" in Swahili?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
.. for a new Linux packaging format?
Well?
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Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Nope. All the other 500 previous distros weren't build properly, but this one will be. Mark their words.
Or anybody else for that matter.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
And they want their headline back.
Um...how about...
"Jose Exherbo, you are a friend of mine..."
Well, okay, maybe not.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Hmm... Didn't scroll down enough. All I found were references to this project, which seems to be a weed.
Well, that's refreshing. Maybe the gang got some hints on PR from Stone Brewing Company.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
...another post asking do we really need another Linux distro?
>>> Exherbo is a distribution designed for people who know what they're doing with Linux.
Are you so badass that gentoo is like ripping candy out of newb babie hands? Exherbo!
>>> Although it shares some code with Gentoo, and although many concepts are similar, and although many of the people involved were or are Gentoo developers, most Exherbo code is rewritten from scratch.
We know way more than those Gentoo tards will ever know.
>>> Exherbo is not, at the moment, a user-targeted distribution.
Come on... you want it, don't you? You want to be so badass to use my awesome distro, to be the most leetest person ever.
>>> It's not that we think that Gentoo is bad.
Gentoo is wretched for our godly needs.
>>> OK, I Want to Try Exherbo
I am high as a kite.
>>> Right now, all we care about is getting it into a fit state for a small number of developers.
We're announcing this publicly because we have no idea what product we're presenting, but we'll make it sound fucking awesome compared to everything else, plus way wore leetsauce, so we can get some actual developers to contribute something useful to make our project objectively good.
>>> The above paragraph does not apply if your pet project is something we find interesting.
Again, if you have anything that will make this distro more than a publicity stunt, for the love of god, please let us know.
>>> It's not that we hate you (unless we do).
Forgot how much better we are then you? You did? OK, in conclusion, fuck you.
Credit where credit's due: John Gruber and Mark Pilgrim
There is quite a lot of code in git, including a substantial base system tree and an xorg-x11 tree. And at least one person claims to be running it on a live system.
An IT & FOSS guy got his ego dented?!? Say it isn't so! That never happens!
FOSS people are the most altruistic and saintly people EVAAR! Why, they give their software away! They give their source away! They work for free much of the time! How dare you criticize these saints! They give us an option against Microsoft the EVIL that will run on Intell/PC products! They give us a way to save old and outdated computers that will go into a landfill!
How dare you insult those people!!
This indeed seems to be a new distro, but it's aimed at Gentoo ricers. CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, YO!
VROOM VROOOM!
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
Interesting.
So maybe the story is that they pissed someone off by their exclusionary attitude or by dissing Gentoo/someone's mom/etc, so they put it on Slashdot just to generate interest where it wasn't welcome.
Sounds like the makings of a geek soap opera.
Join us next on "As The Nerd Turns" when 1337h4x0r's ambitions to work on a private Linux distro are thwarted by the nefarious Anonymous Reader! Will the site be slashdotted? Will countless newbs flock to this entertainingly hostile distro? Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion!
Someone call NBC.
Østergaard must have been on weed...
Maybe that's why he misspelled the name.
It should have been ExherbØ (code name: Biting Moose)
Yes. Yes, it belongs on Slashdot. So we can make fun of it. Or not. Complaining about complainers is as bad as complaining in the first place.
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[grabs a bag of popcorn...]
I'm riveted to my seat! I can't wait to see what happens next!