![]() This past week, I have been busy working on packaging the software for SimplyGNUstep, and I am pleased to announce that I am making the This is exactly what SimplyGNUstep needs in order to become a real user oriented desktop operating system. Unlike the current version of Debian, “Woody”, which used relatively old versions of software and the 2.2 version of the Linux kernel, Sarge can use Linux kernel-2.6 as well as the newest gcc compilers and c libraries. However, Debian Sarge goes way beyond this. Method for users to automatically receive software updates (apt-get). Debian in general has an awesome software package management system (dpkg) as well as a very convenient It turns out that Sarge has exactly what SimplyGNUstep needs. But not just regular Debian, the next version of Debian, code named “Sarge”. I chose to base SimplyGNUstep on is Debian. Talking about “forking” an existing distribution, but rather adjusting it in some minor ways and adding extra software. Instead of trying to create a whole Linux distribution from scratch, why not take an existing distribution and extend it? I’m not Because of this, I chose a new route to create SimplyGNUstep. At the rate I was going I realized SimplyGNUstep would simply never be finished. Most of the time by myself, I decided that it simply could not continue. However, the task of creating a complete Linux distribution was much harder than I ever imagined. All of the traditional Linux directories are still there, in their normal places, but they are hidden from the user when he There are a myriad of other directories which differentiate it, such as /Network, /System,Īnd /Library. ![]() For one, applicationsĪre kept in the /Applications directory. SimplyGNUstep is different than your standard Linux distribution, it is actually more Mac OS X like than anything. Because this was a fresh distribution, we could use the newest Linux kernel (2.5.X and 2.6.0-testX), gcc compiler, c runtime library (glibc), and any other software, without having to worry about backwards compatibility problems. ![]() ![]() For one, it was not a fork of an existing distribution, such as Red Hat or Mandrake, it was being built completely from scratch, with it’s own software package management system, among other things. It used the Linux kernel and the standard GNU software, but it was not like any other standard Linux distribution. It’s goal was to create a pure GNUstep based user oriented desktop operating system. The SimplyGNUstep project was started a little over two years ago. ![]()
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