Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Nov 2008 22:45 UTC, submitted by pablo_marx
OSNews, Generic OSes Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because no, changing three icons and adding the suffix '-nix' to any random word doesn't make it different from Ubuntu. Anyway, sometimes, a new distribution is started that brings something new to the table. One such "distribution" is Glendix, which aims to combine the Linux kernel with the userpsace tools from Plan 9. Distribution is probably not the right term for this project.
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Nice name choice
by cypress on Wed 26th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
cypress
Member since:
2005-07-11

"Plan 9 from Outer Space" was a movie made by Edward D. Wood, Jr. "Glen or Glenda" is another movie by the same director. Thus - Glendix. ;)

RE: Nice name choice
by sbergman27 on Wed 26th Nov 2008 23:01 in reply to "Nice name choice"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

Glenda, the bunny, is the Plan 9 mascot. Like Tux the penguin is for Linux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda,_the_Plan_9_Bunny

And Glenda's supercomputing cluster at IBM:

http://tinyurl.com/2bz6mf

Edited 2008-11-26 23:10 UTC

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RE[2]: Nice name choice
by grfgguvf on Thu 27th Nov 2008 02:20 in reply to "RE: Nice name choice"
grfgguvf Member since:
2006-09-25

And Glenda's supercomputing cluster at IBM:

http://tinyurl.com/2bz6mf


That looks photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels, having seen quite a few in my time.

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RE: Nice name choice
by areimann on Thu 27th Nov 2008 04:47 in reply to "Nice name choice"
areimann Member since:
2006-06-12

Why you know this is beyond me. ;)

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