Software Project Forks
Users discuss whether the featured project is a fork of another, identify specific forks and their lineages (e.g., charybdis from ircd-ratbox), and reference historical forking examples like io.js from Node.js or Pale Moon from Firefox.
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never heard of it before, which project was it a fork of?
in this case, it's literally because it's fork of something from the early 2000s
Did anyone fork the project when it was based on Linux?
Isn't Enlightenment a fork of that?
They aren't starting from scratch, it's a fork of charybdis, which in turn was a fork of ircd-ratbox.
Yeah, Bergamot is the fork of the original project (notice the browsermt in the second URL).
TEngine might be the most well-known fork
Hey — not sure if you noticed, but that is just a fork. The main repo (they rebranded as Enso) is still under active development. That said, I’m not too excited about the direction they’ve gone with it over the past few years.
It lives on as a fork: https://www.kaiostech.com/
Discussion from a year ago where the more active/up-to-date fork was also mentioned:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626582