There has been a rather odd development today: a group of Polish developers, responsible for the Linux distribution Pingwinek Linux, have released a distribution of Haiku called GNU/Haiku (download links here). The story has been reported on widely already, posts about the new distro can be found on OSNews, HaikuNews, IsComputerOn, and Studio-33.

The Pingwinek website contains a small collection of screenshots that show off their Haiku distribution. Based on the screenshots and the description posted on their website, it appears to be a re-packaging of a recent Haiku build, with the addition of several games and command line tools ported/re-compiled from Linux. While the “GNU/Haiku” name does seem a bit odd, it appears that the “GNU” prefix only refers to the added software – it doesn’t look as if the Pingwinek group are releasing a Haiku distro relicensed under the GPL.

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