“It’s hard to miss the ads sporting the tough-looking penguins
crossing their flippers. In a seeming deluge of ads, the until-now
almost unknown Kondara project has made a big splash in Linux
publications. Kondara’s main product is a Linux distribution called
MNU/Linux.”
“Kondara MNU/Linux provides a distribution based on Red Hat
Linux, Red Hat 6.x in this case, precompiled for Pentium or Alpha
systems. It’s clear that Red Hat provides the highest-visibility
Linux distribution. Basing Kondara on Red Hat therefore makes a lot
of sense. Quite a lot of other Linux distributions have followed
the route of building new features on top of an existing
distribution.”
“But this is not just any old staid Linux distribution, as you’d
guess from the ads. For one thing, it seems like the developers
have a lot of fun, starting with the name of the product. The MNU
part of the name MNU/Linux comes from the sound made when you touch
a penguin (no kidding). The Japanese symbols look more like munyuu
to me, but I could be reading the Hiragana incorrectly. MNU also
stands for ‘Mount is not Umount,’ according to the Web site, in
what seems to be a play on the GNU acronym, GNU’s not Unix.”