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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For example, if I want an XFCE-based Ubuntu, would I rather download the xubuntu-desktop metapackage and then uninstall the GNOME packages or just download and install a premade Xubuntu iso? Sure, your examples would be pretty stupìd distros for sure, but it's not the case. Zebuntu is supposed to not only look different but also provide certain degree of campatibility with the original BeOS, everything as a one-stop solution. You can't tell your Zeta customers "to download and install this Ubuntu Linux thing, open a shell and run sudo apt-get install zebuntu-desktop zebuntu-compat". It's just an example, don't try this at home