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.
Good thing I read the article… I thought they were building an open source version of Halo, the video game
Like EmmEff said, I thought for a second they were building a free version of Halo!
A little summary of the project might help.
Why punt on BSD and go GNU/Linux?
http://halo.willisburg.org/content/view/24/2/
Sad, but not exactly unexpected. That said, I hope it won’t be gone for good.
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.”
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.
What happened to my score? Sheesh!
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?