Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Jun 2006 17:49 UTC, submitted by Willis
Linux After several months of work, research, and a massive platform change, The Gnu-HALO Project (formerly BSD-HALO) has finally released a proof-of-concept alpha bootable ISO to the public. It is now based very closely on SLAX Linux for the time being, and there are plans to keep software binary compatability as the project matures.
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Not what I thought...
by EmmEff on Mon 19th Jun 2006 19:16 UTC
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Good thing I read the article... I thought they were building an open source version of Halo, the video game ;)

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Gnu-Halo?
by Nathan O. on Mon 19th Jun 2006 20:03 UTC
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Like EmmEff said, I thought for a second they were building a free version of Halo!

A little summary of the project might help.

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The most intriguing aspect:
by smitty_one_each on Mon 19th Jun 2006 20:04 UTC
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Why punt on BSD and go GNU/Linux?

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RE: The most intriguing aspect:
by Wrawrat on Mon 19th Jun 2006 23:11 UTC in reply to "The most intriguing aspect:"
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2005-06-30

http://halo.willisburg.org/content/view/24/2/

Sad, but not exactly unexpected. That said, I hope it won't be gone for good.

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darn videogames...
by natefrogg on Mon 19th Jun 2006 22:33 UTC
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i too, thought this was somehow related to halo the videogame...

i agree with Nathon O.'s statement, "A little summary of the project might help."

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not me
by deanlinkous on Mon 19th Jun 2006 23:19 UTC
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2006-06-19

I didnt even think about the game...
But I thought it would be HALO GNU/Linux and not GNU HALO but RMS would probably be happy! I was thinking GNU HURD stuff.

They have some good ideas but it is nothing revolutionary. I do like the direction though but not sure everything is attainable/substainable. Truly wish them luck but would prefer more effort be churned into corrent projects instead of everyone starting their own. But that is just my preference, and I certainly respect anyones choice to do their own thing.

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so
by deanlinkous on Tue 20th Jun 2006 00:30 UTC
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2006-06-19

What happened to my score? Sheesh!

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FreeBSD/Mach ?
by CodeMonkey on Tue 20th Jun 2006 14:07 UTC
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2005-09-22

So now he's using linux on the L4 microkernel. What kernel was he using with what I'm assuming is the FreeBSD userland? The FreeBSD kernel is not exactly what one would call a microkernel (quite the contrary actually). Did he borrow a Mach kernel from another project (HURD, Darwin, etc.), write one from the specs (I doubt), or what?

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