Some of you might have used an early Wii build available in the Download page. The ones who have used it might feel sad to learn Cinux for Wii is abandoned, and I, the one who developed it, am creating an x86 (32-bit) embedded version of Cinux.

You might be asking, why did I abandon Cinux for Wii to create x86 builds. The answer is as simple as the developers of the wii kernel ports abandoning the project. On the Wiibrew wiki page for Wii-linux, a message is posted, which states the following:

    Cinux, as any Linux based operating system, has thousands of programs that can run, however, the negative thing about it is the so called "dependency hell." To solve this we have package managers, and even Cinux has one. It's called Cinux-Get and I've talked about it many times, but never included a complete version of it with Cinux.

    Cinux 1.7 "Pandora" was the last available release, yet one full year has gone by since then and no other release has been provided. Since then, I have worked on it, periodically, but I have not dedicated time to it. As stated in a previous article, I have surpassed the one thousand builds barrier and have kept every in between release (1.8 to 2.1) to myself, unfortunately.

    Cinux 1.8 "Dusa" was the first release after "Pandora" and came with really nice features; Gnome 2.30.2 was discontinued and Xfce 4 was introduced, bringing freshness to a rusty and old system; several networking tools were added and tweaked just for Cinux and made it possible for people to connect to a network without the need of the Terminal.

Open Source: Software, hardware or manufactured goods with an open license, that you can modify, reproduce and redistribute, free of charge.

    To those who think that #Ubuntu and #Android are really free, open source and secure, well, I have bad news for you. Sure, Ubuntu and Android are open source, you can view the source code and compile it, thus create your own instances or "distributions," but what you aren't really told is what is happening behind the scenes.