Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Feb 2008 13:42 UTC, submitted by Karl
Already at their second beta release [German], Zebuntu is an Xfce-based Ubuntu distribution with heavy - you guessed it - Zeta influences. Bernd Korz explains the goals of Zebuntu in the project's announcement [German]: "Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new platform for our former Zeta customers. In the future, Zeta, BeOS, as well as any future Haiku applications, will run natively on Zebuntu. This also offers a distinct advantage for developers for these platforms; they can use Zebuntu to develop for their platforms while utilising the performance and versatility of Linux." In other words, run BeOS applications on Linux. They have not forgotten about BFS support either. The project is, of course, completely open source. The website is only available in German for now, but Zebuntu developer Leszek Lesner confirmed to me that work is being done on an English variant (there already is an English development blog). Download the second beta from their download page, and, of course, see some screenshots.
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So just to get this right - this is based on the BlueEyedOS source code? I could not find this verified on the web page (and the ISO is still downloading).
If yes, it's a good thing. This would give us a system that for the most part looks and feels like BeOS, but allows to use the wealth of Linux drivers that Haiku unfortunately does not have access to. With all due respect to the Haiku developers, I'm not expecting full OpenGL with hardware support for shaders or WPA2 for exotic PCMCIA cards soon - this project however will have it.