Development Suddenly Resumes on Linux Distro CutefishOS (thenewstack.io) 7
Last month fans were worried about CuteFish OS, with its domain timing out, emails going unanswered, and a Twitter feed that hadn't posted anything since March.
But "now it looks like the original development team behind CuteFishOS is coming back to life," according to this report from The New Stack — with a Reddit user planning a fork now saying that's been put on hold, since "I'd be duplicating work for no reason." Last Sunday — on July 31st — CuteFish's official repository on GitHub was updated with a new announcement in its profile. "Your Favorite CutefishOS are back now!" [sic]
It also promised "New website in the works (coming soon)." and pointed to a new URL.
You can see the changes happening right before your eyes. That website's domain — OpenFish.org — was registered just ten days ago, on Thursday, July 28th — and it's still a work in progress. On Thursday afternoon it was pointing to a non-English-language page hosted on the Pakistani cloud platform QCloud — but by Thursday night it was showing a testing page for a NGNIX HTTP server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And there's now also a new README file in CuteFish's GitHub repository listing five items as "progressing." The first item is "official website preparation," but other items include collating the previous pull requests and issues, "fix the existing problem," and eventually adding new features. The sole contributor to the repository appears to be a Chinese coder going under the name of Biukang.
"We are preparing for the restart of CutefishOS," says Biukang's GitHub profile now.
But the article still hails last month's discussion of a fork as "a chance to see open source communities mobilizing into action just to fill a perceived void."
But "now it looks like the original development team behind CuteFishOS is coming back to life," according to this report from The New Stack — with a Reddit user planning a fork now saying that's been put on hold, since "I'd be duplicating work for no reason." Last Sunday — on July 31st — CuteFish's official repository on GitHub was updated with a new announcement in its profile. "Your Favorite CutefishOS are back now!" [sic]
It also promised "New website in the works (coming soon)." and pointed to a new URL.
You can see the changes happening right before your eyes. That website's domain — OpenFish.org — was registered just ten days ago, on Thursday, July 28th — and it's still a work in progress. On Thursday afternoon it was pointing to a non-English-language page hosted on the Pakistani cloud platform QCloud — but by Thursday night it was showing a testing page for a NGNIX HTTP server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And there's now also a new README file in CuteFish's GitHub repository listing five items as "progressing." The first item is "official website preparation," but other items include collating the previous pull requests and issues, "fix the existing problem," and eventually adding new features. The sole contributor to the repository appears to be a Chinese coder going under the name of Biukang.
"We are preparing for the restart of CutefishOS," says Biukang's GitHub profile now.
But the article still hails last month's discussion of a fork as "a chance to see open source communities mobilizing into action just to fill a perceived void."
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It’s a trap
Seriously, here's what the Firefox landing page says if I try to browse the site:
I also get connect errors with offline downloading tools like curl and wget.
And why should I care? (Score:4, Interesting)
"Another Linux distro" is not newsworthy at this point, what is unique about this one? New UX concepts? Unique package management? Realtime support for professional musicians? Ultimately it would be cool if people got back into fundamental OS research rather than minor XFCE forks to parrot Windows or MacOS.
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"Another Linux distro" is not newsworthy at this point, what is unique about this one?
Nothing unique, but we had some arguments when the last story was posted, so this callback is probably expected to produce some engagement.
Wrong URL ending. TOP not ORG (Score:2)
The website linked off of the github page is openfish.top [openfish.top] not .org. Might want to note that you could be sending people where they dont want to go.
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