ekkoBSD’s site seems to be closing doors, but there is not enough information about it.
ekkoBSD Dead?
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Oh dear. I can’t wait this article to get posted on /.
I’ve never followed ekkoBSD, but a little Googling reveals their most recent release to have occurred within the last 10 days. Strange that they would close their doors so soon after a productive spurt.
Damn, EkkoBSD was one of the BSDs I had planned to try soon…
http://www.ekkobsd.org/download/
It seems that Dave Steinberg (programmer with ekkoBSD) has this clip on his home page (http://www.redterror.net/) regarding ekkoBSD’s demise:
“I was involved in the ekkoBSD project, which has ceased to exist. There I did a bit of coding, cvs management, and a lot of planning. Ultimately we suffered from a lack of real developer resources (I’m not quite strong enough to lead a project like that yet), and time difficulties.”
I could swear I read an article about a release or something recently.. I went to their website and really couldn’t tell what the point of the project was, what it was supposed to offer that already existing BSDs don’t.
I just have received an e-mail from Rick Collette, answering to the sad question:
“sadly, thats about the size of it.”
Oh dear indeed. I was looking forward to a 1.0 release of this BSD flavour.
A secure BSD with a GUI installer that a newbie like me could cope with
In retrospect, the development team did seem quite thin on the ground…..
There’s always dragonflyBSD – read something about an easiER install in upcoming versions.
Installing it was a no-brainer. I didn’t have to issue one single shell command. I had a spare primary partition though. Just be sure you get 1.0 _A_ Release, and not plain 1.0 REL. There’s a disk partition bug in 1.0. The base install is pretty bare-bones though, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You have to get X, Gnome/KDE etc from gobsd.com or the freebsd ports collection, I think.
I’m not trying to troll here, but I always got the impression whenever I checked out their site that the place was a ghost town. Very sparse on info. I never tried it because of the somewhat barren web page–it reminded me of some planning/pre-alpha sf.net project that is still not updated after years. And I never heard much news of it, other than someone plugging it in a thread.
Well, they did get a fair amount of CVS commits.
so passes one great bsd. however.. i bet someone will pick up development for it under a diff name.
I did a final review of it before I found out it was canned. Too bad, while it wasn’t what it promnised to be yet, it did have potential:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/punkwalrus/21185.html