Some of you out there might remember the Descent OS distro created by Brian Manderville and based on the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, and today we have some bad news for them as the development is now officially closed.Descent OS first appeared in February 2012 as a lightweight Ubuntu derivative built around the GNOME 2 desktop environment. Back then, it was known as Descent|OS, and was quite actively developed with new features and components borrowed from the latest Ubuntu releases.
A year ago, the developer announced, after a two-year break, that he's preparing for the next major release of the distribution, Descent OS 5.0, and prepared a first Alpha build for those who wanted to help him with the testing, but it doesn't look like people were interested in this project anymore.
As such, earlier this morning, Brian Manderville dropped the big news on both Google+ and Twitter... (read more)
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