Zynot Foundation Forks Gentoo

deque_alpha writes "The Gentoo Linux distribution has been forked by a group of Gentoo developers and community members. This fork is being placed under the control of the non-profit Zynot Foundation, which will "hold the source code, trademarks, and any other intellectual property developed by and for its community." The goals of the fork include improving stability and cross-platform reliability to bring the Gentoo-developed technology to the enterprise and embedded arenas." Another reader points out Zack Welch's long article at Zynot.org on reasons for forking the Gentoo distribution.

Well

[Silvertre]

its better to be forked than knifed...

Re:Well

[Anonymous Coward]

...there is no spoon.

Re:Could be a great thing

[VistaBoy]

I do not think it is in the best interest of the developers to be referred to as "forkers"

Those forkers!

Re:Well

[retto]

... or sporked.

Re:Could be a great thing

[Anonymous Coward]

"I understand that this could mean great things for the distribution, if executed properly."

To be executed properly, it would need to be knifed, not forked.

Re:Well

[SkArcher]

So Gentoo is now GenTree?

Sorry, somebody had to say it :P

Sean Connery says: "Just like a Mick

[teamhasnoi]

to bring a fork to a gnu-fight."

Oh god. That's really bad.

Re:Well

[Saint Stephen]

Nah, it's Genstead.

Worst Headline Ever!

[Greyfox]

It took me about 5 seconds to parse that headline and the first 3 images that went through my mind should not be mentioned in a PG rated forum...

Re:Hardneded Gentoo

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh, yep that's pretty cool, alright.

I know that when I need to log into my servers as root, I definitely want to be able to 'do almost nothing'.

Setting your shell to nologin must be a real treat for you!

WOWEE! :P

Re:Could be a great thing

[Hacker Cracker]

Overheard in the halls of the Gentoo foundation, to the developers of Zynot:

"Fork you!"

-- Shamus

Bleah!

Zynot has forked ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Couple of days after Zynot forked from Gentoo
a group of disgrunted Zynot users decided to
fork Zynot to Yznge platform. The users welcomed
this fork as it closes us to the ultimate
Wholy Grail of the Linux movement known as
"Linux distribution for everybody" meaning that
each person will have his/her own Linux distro.
Linux made another important step on the way
to the total world domination :
"Ein Mann, Ein PC, Ein Linux distro" !!!

Zynot fork??

[pair-a-noyd]

Zy the hell not??

Re:SERIOUS QUESTION

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah.

I have an even better idea, how about nobody waste any time on anything, instead everyone uses M$ Windows and IE? I mean, wheather Microsoft sucks or not is just an opinion, not a science, right?

By the way, Mozilla has considerably less chance rendering a page wrong, compared to KHTML. If any thing is a waste of time, KHTML is. But of course, Apple chose to use it, so it must be a better thing.

Re:-1, Flamebait

[pigeon]

Hey, not only has gentoo the ports collection like freebsd, it has also the sometimes less than friendly developers like openbsd... cool!

(Disclaimer: this is a joke. I like openbsd)

joke

[MoOsEb0y]

Random Guy: Why'd you make a fork off Gentoo?
Ex-Gentoo Devel Guy: Zynot?

More or fewer?

[macshit]

Does this mean there'll be more or fewer gentoo zombies on slashdot? Well maybe that's too harsh, but you know what I mean -- on a subject with even the most peripheral connection to gentoo, there's always a few people posting 12-page screeds on how much they love gentoo.

Mozilla version 1.4.5.3.5.78b released? ... `You know as soon as I saw that I "emerged" gentoo, and boy you know only 47 hours later, I see the new mozilla, and I can feel the 1% speed improvement I get by compiling from source, I don't know what I'd do without it, I'd just die, it's so great, boy you know, I just love gentoo!'

I can see it going two ways --

1. gentoo community wars among itself, spends all their effort doing that, less time for posting to slashdot. Yay!
2. competing gentoo sects feel an even greater need to evangelize, so they start non-stop posting screeds.... The horror...the horror...

Re:It's only tyranny when someone else is in charg

[lewp]

Yeah, I think the original board of ICANN said something similar. We all know how that turned out [miami.edu].

Obvious Monty Python Reference

[Twinkle2]

REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
REG: People's Front! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
REG: He's over there.
P.F.J.: Splitter!

Gotta have a good name for the distro

[Redundant offtopic t]

In keeping with the immensely derivative naming conventions of open source projects, I suggest Jenthree. Or Kaytu. Or Lindows.

Re:-1, Flamebait

[lewp]

If you're part of the "Linux community" you mentioned, let me the hell out. While it's hard to disagree with some of your observations about the vocal (seemingly) majority of Gentoo users, you manage to layer enough homoerotic bullshit on top of your valid points that you look just as bad as any of them.

You mostly come across as some little kid who got a mean response on one of their forums and has a bone to pick. The only reason I can see for you to be moderated "Funny" is because there is no "Sad" modifier.

Re:Could be a great thing

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Yeah!

I'm looking forward to the HURD port of Gentoo!

Re:Some of us expect those attitude problems

[balthan]

You know
the bea-
uty of
HTML
is the
way you
don't
have to
have
strict
format-
ting so
things
can be
rendered
in a
non-
annoying
way on
many
differ-
rent
machines
.

Orson Wells' Animal Farm was good...

[mikeophile]

but I think George Orwell's Citizen Kane was much better.

"Rosebud..."

Psst Zaurus Users

[mritunjai]

So you mean that this is Gentoo for embedded systems... Hmmm I can see it now-

Me: What're you doing buddy ?
Zaurus chap: Umm nothing... I "emerge"ed a calendar app yesterday... just 5 more files to compile

Re:Well

[quigonn]

But not as good as getting nailed.

Re:Some of us expect those attitude problems

[Anonymous Coward]

I personally formal
prefer layout
fer a whilst
more sty- abusing
listic monospace
two column fonts,
myself.

Re:SERIOUS QUESTION

[nathanh]

The ultimate failure of "open source" is this: everybody wants to have it his own way. Consequently, we have ten individuals or groups working on their own variations on X, instead of cooperating on X itself.

Yeah, I see similar failures all the time.

I go to the book store and there's hundreds of books. Different plots and different stories and different covers. Wouldn't it be better if there was just One Book!

I go to the movie theatre and there's a new movie every week! Different plots and different actors and different meanings. Wouldn't it be better if there was just One Movie!

Choice is a failure! I can't wait until we all wear the same drab clothes and live in the same box-like houses doing the same boring things and living the same unoriginal lives.

Re:SERIOUS QUESTION

[I start fires]

There are some people that agree with you

"One World, One web, One program" - Microsoft Promo ad.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
--

Breaking news

[wsgeek]

"Linux developers have finally succeeded in creating a "self-forking" Linux distribution. Approximately every 3-8 months, the code will spontaneously fork into a new distribution, this creating more choices for users of Linux. This, apparently, has been the goal of Linux all along." ---- Seriously, folks, does the world need another Linux distro? Possibly I am not well-versed enough in Linux internals to understand how this variant is *truly* unique... but I thought that the whole friggin' point of Linux is that you have the source code and some fancy compile-time config params, so you can basically include/exclude any component that you want!!!!? This means you can create a light, embedded version... or a full-blown server. All from the same source code. What is it with the Penguin-clan and all of their distributions? Quit diluting the value of a great idea, people. Linux is a fantastic thing, but if you would just take the time to focus on one, two, or even three distros then things would move forward a lot faster.