The Little Engine That Could

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Oct 4, 2007 10:48 AM EDT
Marcel Gagné's blog; By Marcel Gagné 		Mail this story
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As some of you may remember, 2 distros signed pacts with Microsoft in a short time. Those were Linspire and Xandros. Since 2004 I have been a Linspire Insider. I was as upset about this deal as many others were. I even had a phone call with Kevin Carmony regarding the matter. Well, at one point on the forums, Kevin Carmony told some upset members that if they did not like the way things were, they can start their own distro and see how it goes. So, former Freespire Leadership Board member Chris Medico assembled a team, of which I was honored to be asked to be a part of, which he lovingly calls Freedom Force. Within weeks, this new project, based on Kubuntu, had an Alpha. The project is called KlikIt Linux.

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a different kind of fork tuxchick 1 1,750 Oct 4, 2007 1:59 PM

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