Linux Not GNU (LNG) is a project aimed at providing a working Linux distribution with the ability to exclude any package hosted in gnu.org.

The project is based on Gentoo embedded project which is already using uClibc as it's C library so we can start by getting rid of the GNU Glibc and so on...

Since the project is based on Gentoo we can create a LNG profile with a userland_LNG USE flag. In this profile we will be able to mask packages belonging to the GNU project one by one until we finally manage to mask them all away.

The release 1.0 will happen when we have finaly manage to mask every package belonging to the GNU project while having a working distro. A fully bootable stage3 with SSH enabled.

We are initially developing on CHOST="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" because it's easy for us, but porting to other architectures is welcome.

Mailing list:
http://lists.sandino.net/mailman/listinfo/lng
-- I know the list is running on Mailman and Mailman should be banned from this "Not-GNU" project. This will be Bug #1 as soon as I can install a bug tracker, to move the list to a non-GNU manager like Ecartis or Majordomo.

References:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/TinyGentoo
http://psas.pdx.edu/GentooCrossCompilerHowto/
http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/experimental/x86/embedded/
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Embedded_Gentoo
http://www.codemonkeyninja.com/blog/?page_id=35
http://www.llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/html/llvmgcc.html
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml
http://www.busybox.net/
http://uclibc.org/
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/