[1] Kongoni was a desktop oriented operating system with a strong belief in being free (as in freedom) and aimed to be easy to install, use and customize.

The name was chosen as it represents the spirit and history of Kongoni, a Linux operating system of African origin.

Each release of Kongoni was named after great philosophers, including: Aristotle, Sophocles, Nietzsche and Cicero.

This allows one to download the source code for a program, as opposed to a pre-compiled binary file, which is then compiled and built automatically on the users system.

This offers the benefit of smaller downloads and programs that may run faster and/or use less memory, as they are compiled explicitly for the users own system.