The kongoni release has made some real headlines and our servers are working hard – plenty of downloads -more than I expected for a developers release actually. The buzz is still small, but significant and I expect it to grow as the releases get better – and we prove we’re in this for the long haul.
The biggest story seems to have been from tectonic which got fed round all over the place.
Interestingly also got picked up at tuxmachines, which stands out for adding my screenshots blog to the story.
Some big sites that occasionally feed from tectonic also chose it for their main pages, not least of which was IOL.
Distrowatch listed us distrowatch weekly – of about 6 new distro’s, we’re one of two to get a screenshot, the cool thing is it’s not one of mine, meaning they must have actually ran the thing to take their own 
So far the first individual blogger I’ve seen writing about it is this guy.
Muti and digg both have the announcement and the tectonic story, in both cases the tectonic link got more votes however but not a huge difference.
Also on that muti page you’ll find a link to this story posted on mybroadband by Alistair the editor of tectonic – but not the same story he posted on his own site. Yay Al, he must really like the idea to write two stories about it.
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Updates: 25th February:
The first nice one that’s new today is Techzine.nl who picked up and translated the Tectonic story into Dutch., this is probably the first non-English story about it. Looks like a human translation too, because I can read it.
A fellow named Glyn Moodie (whose name sounds very familiar) tweeted the So last year blog. not major press – but cool to see this kind of response. And another tweet here, with a very South African name.
While the big news sites is great for getting the word out, I’m excited to see tweets and blogs starting to appear -they can make or break a new distro.
Please keep an eye on this post as I’ll be updating it for the next few days when interesting press coverage appears. I’m particularly eager for our first real review.
