Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Aug 2005 19:37 UTC, submitted by Robert Millan
The first Live-CD based on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has appeared. Its name is Ging (for Ging Is Not Ging) and it includes a GNOME 2.10 desktop, Abiword, and a complete toolchain with gcc 4.0.
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Member since:2005-06-29
And because they can. :-)
Member since:2005-08-27
I agree with questioning "why". FreeBSD has ports and most of the "GNU" tools can be installed this way. Divergence away from the core FreeBSD means that this probably probably won't last.
I use NetBSD and am happy that there are no truely official "distros" of the OS. Also the "because we can" statement is true. Read the end of comments from Debian's bastardized NetBSD project:
http://www.us.debian.org/ports/netbsd/why
Personally, the linux userland is not something I want on my system, for home or production.
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2005-07-18
Is there any aim/purpose for this project, aside from the often-said "just because we can"? I dug through the release notes and project info page, and I can't find anything that would point to the "why" of the project.
Any ideas?