eeebuntu won this year’s SourceForge.net Community Choice Award for Best New Project. The project’s Paul McDonough answers our questions.
What made you choose to make your project open source?
We wanted to give people the choice to have a free OS on their netbook. Debian and Ubuntu were the ideal basis for this, so we built our project from there.
What does your development environment (OS, IDE, etc.) look like?
We use GNOME as our desktop environment, but we have recently started public betas of an LXDE environment, which is blazing fast on these li’l eeepcs.
How long did it take you to develop your project and how many people contributed to it?
Our project has been running now for nearly a year. We have had people come and go. We currently have three to four main developers on board.
How many open source projects have you worked on? What is your favorite?
This is the first project to which I personally have contributed. Other members of the team have developed multiple pieces of software.