Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support

Posted by timothy on from the types-like-this-kept-me-out-of-good-schools dept.

mu22le writes "Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming 'the universal operating system' by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive. This does not mean that the Debian project is ditching the Linux kernel; Debian users will be able to choose which kernel they want to install (at least on on the i386 and amd64 architectures) and get more or less the same Debian operating system they are used to. This makes Debian the first distribution, and probably the first large OS, to support two completely different kernels at the same time."

2 of 425 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And by "support" you mean.. by DECS · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Darwin is a hybrid kernel that uses low level elements of Mach paired with higher level elements of BSD, not two different kernels.

    However, NeXT developed OpenStep as a universal operating system environment that actually ran in production on Solaris, the Win NT kernel + OS, as well as the Mach/BSD kernel ported to various hardware.

    Apple planned to port that layer on top of the Mac OS too (providing a Yellow Box that could run like Java anywhere), then realized it made more sense to use Mach/BSD and port the Mac appearance on top of OpenStep, and ended up making enough modifications to kill any backward compatibility with the OpenStep specification.

    That's what Mac OS X is.

    Why OS X is on the iPhone, but not the PC

  2. Re:/usr/bin/pride, /usr/bin/ego, /etc by coryking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a load of rubbish. Do you honestly believe a word of what you just wrote?

    If you opt for this pseudopragmatism instead, just call it whatever you want.

    I call it Linux and so does everybody I know. You are fighting a war that ended years ago. Worse, you make people who support open source sound insane.

    Dude, it is software, not a friggen religious movement. Have some perspective.