A week or two with Kongoni GNU/Linux

“Kongoni is billed as a Slackware-based, desktop-oriented
GNU/Linux distribution and live CD, with a BSD-style ports tree and
a graphical management system. Given that Slackware is the most
BSD-like Linux this seems to make sense.

“Having heard good things about FreeBSD, Arch, and Gentoo which
come to mind, this sounded intriguing and I decided to give this
young project a spin. Kongoni has only had one release out so far,
version 1.12.2 released 12/07/2009, a year old by the time you read
this. This release was still based on Slackware 12 according to the
developer, but has moved up since then via the repository. At the
moment it is in sync with Slackware current, I suppose until the
new release is out which, going by the kernel 2.6.34 and
application versions will be based on Slackware 13.1.

“Kongoni is available for the i386 and x86_64 architectures and,
as many may have guessed due to GNU emphasized in the name, is
committed to the principles of free and libre software in
accordance with the ideals of the FSF, although this may change in
the future.”

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