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Name: K. Lange
Email: klange (at) toaruos (dot) org
Subject: Re: "Way, Way Outside!"

Your recent article titled "Linux and the Multiverse", published in the January 2019 issue, featured a subsection "Way, Way Outside!" about PonyOS. It is always an honor to see my creations featured in media publications, especially in print form. As I say on my website, and as Marcel reiterates in the article (though perhaps with a tone that may not convey sincerity), PonyOS is not a Linux distribution - its kernel and core applications instead deriving from my real hobby OS project (ToaruOS), where they were written from scratch by myself and a handful of contributors over nearly a decade. PonyOS is, of course, a joke - a special release, updated once a year on an equally special day. As it's been several months since the last April Fools, much has happened in the upstream project, and as such the latest release of PonyOS is a sort of time capsule, capturing a bygone era for both projects - rather nostalgic to me! PonyOS and its progenitor ToaruOS are not alone in the hobby OS world - there's plenty of other great projects worth checking out like Sortix (https://sortix.org), Redox (https://redox-os.org/), and Kolibri (https://www.kolibrios.org/en/) - all with different goals and histories. Thanks again for the article, and I hope you're looking forward to the release of PonyOS 6 in a few months - there's a lot in store for it!

PS: There is a typo in the article - "Mimix" should be "Minix", the OS famed for being the one Linus himself was running while writing Linux.