Never Heard of Exherbo? Never Will, Either. | Linux Today

Never Heard of Exherbo? Never Will, Either.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 7, 2008

“In the open-source world, it’s fairly commonplace for
developers to modify an existing application and create a new
application. OpenBravo was initially based on Compiere, Lotus
Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org, and there are variations of
Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu,
Gobuntu, Mythbuntu, Gobuntu, Fluxbuntuneed the list go on?) as
developers modify the code for a more specialized system.

“We don’t begrudge developers their fun, but Exherbo made us
pause. It shares a lot of concepts from Gentoo, but Exherbo’s
developers claim that it is not a true Gentoo fork…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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