Around the turn of the millenium, Linux was becoming all the rage. Everyone and their pet fish had to have a Linux distribution, and so did a motherboard manufacturer known as ABit...well, sort of.

"Gentus" Linux (which has nothing at all to do with Gentoo) was something "produced" by ABit for their varying lineup of motherboards that included built-in ATA/66 RAID controllers (something not supported by Linux at the time).
What Gentus really is, is a copy of Red Hat Linux of the time, with a HighPoint ATA RAID driver included, as well as a few other things (which you can read about here).

This would normally be all well and good...except what they distributed with Gentus was licensed under the GNU General Public License, which requires dissemination of the source code of products or modifications to products. ABit was reportedly unwilling to do this, thus ending up in violation of the GPL.
Whether or not this ended up being the demise of the distribution I am not sure. All I know is that this 3.0 version, which appears to be a later release, is the only version I was able to find.

Thanks to 86Box there are some ways to emulate various ABit motherboards that Gentus would have been at home on, and this is what I have done here. In theory it would run on basically anything with an Athlon or Pentium II, though.

When the installer starts up, there is a nice giant graphic welcoming the year 2000.

The installer actually identifies and shows you a photo of the ABit motherboard you happen to be using (or emulating). I am not sure what it does if you try installing on a non-ABit board.

Something different compared to most distros of the time is that it combines two different desktop environments AND the server release into a single CD image. This was unheard of at the time.