OSNews: The Resurrection of SimplyGNUstep

“The SimplyGNUstep project was started a little over two years
ago. It’s goal was to create a pure GNUstep based user oriented
desktop operating system. It used the Linux kernel and the standard
GNU software, but it was not like any other standard Linux
distribution.

“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. 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.

“SimplyGNUstep is different than your standard Linux
distribution, it is actually more Mac OS X like than anything. For
one, applications are kept in the /Applications directory. There
are a myriad of other directories which differentiate it, such as
/Network, /System, and /Library. All of the traditional Linux
directories are still there, in their normal places, but they are
hidden from the user when he or she is using GNUstep
applications…”

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