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Oh well....a nice fantasy; the latest kernel, alsa, OO, all in under 50 mb.

That was a tip off to me. Maybe KDE 5 will be taken over by mikshaw's friends at suckless.org and come in at 10k lines of code or less. Not. Heh.
=o)
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Did you look at the actual links to see if all of that information (X, Gnome, KDE, Skype, Linux 2.6, etc.) was related to "DSBSD" or to other projects in  the news at the same time as their announcement? When I looked at the Linux Mini Blog post and Softpedia, neither had anything about a Linux kernel, etc.
http://linuxmini.blogspot.com/2008/01/damn-small-bsd-is-available.html
http://linux.softpedia.com/get....0.shtml

Damn, now I'm a true believer in that you can get anything you search for, even if it doesn't exist.  Must be an added feature for google search, in that they'll string together a sentence including your search items even thought they're from different parts of the page.  Oh well....a nice fantasy; the latest kernel, alsa, OO, all in under 50 mb.

That's been a standard search "feature" in google results since google because google. Google.

Ha. :P
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jpeters
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Comes with 2.6.23.9

Huh? You're kidding. If it uses Linux then it's not BSD at all. Did you do uname -a and get that? I only skimmed the site but presumed they were using FreeBSD bootstrap and a reduced FreeBSD kernel.

chaostic
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, no?

I didn't want to say any more, but I think there could be a bigger problem than just imitation.

Suppose you wanted to develop a new cola. You come up with a standard cola flavor profile, then decide to package it in red cans with white stripes and call it Coca Kola. Is that a flattering imitation? Or does it cross lines involving existing trademarks, etc.?

IMO, it's a bit more than an imitator. And I know Coca Cola would feel even more strongly about something like that. Taking nearly identical goals and packages and using the primary trademarked name of an existing company or project crosses the line.

This is as unacceptable as when "Lindows" was infringing Microsoft's trademark, and as wrong as it would be for a BSD project to come along and use a trademarked name like "Red Hat BSD" or "SlackBSD."

Considering the differences in BSD and Linux, its more like someone took a Sprite/Lemon-lime drink, and called it Coca Sprite.

But, sure, calling it Damn Small was probably a way to gain notoriety offa DSL's success. Maybe they should call it Really Small, Damn Tiny, F'ing Miniature, etc.
Better still - they could approach Robert and John and look at the possibilty of porting some dsl features/scripts over to dsbsd (with acknowledgement, all disclaimers,  and prior permission of course).   My guess is it's way behind dsl.  Why reinvent the wheel in an open source world?
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