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Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status
Reader tail.man points out this press release from Debian which says that the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel will be given equal footing alongside Debian's several other release ports, starting with the release of Squeeze. Excerpting from this release:
"The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on these architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is considered release-critical. Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support."
But, does it run Linux?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
It's nigh time that we look at the sheer scrumtrulesence of Debian and realize that it's reign of End All Be All of OS's must be curtailed and possibly even put an end to. No single OS should be this awesome. And we can no longer ignore the fact that it is.
Features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel.
Scrumtrulesence is a perfectly cromulent word.
How long before he tries to shoe "GNU" into the FreeBSD name?
Because BSD has had this since the 1990's, it's call Ports....
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
That depends upon what you mean by veteran, and what you mean by UNIX.
Ayup.
FreeBsd is closer to Unix due to its BSDness.
A peculiar interpretation. In the early days, I tended to prefer Linux over BSD because Linux generally acted more like the real UNIX(tm) systems at work, while BSD remained inherently...BSDish. Linux was like a Unix inflicted with a random, confusing scattering of BSDisms (like the operation of ps(1)). Of course, if you consider BSD to be The One True Unix (as many BSD fans do), then Linux looks like a UNIX with a random, confusing scattering of SYSVisms. In conclusion, I think I have to say that your first statement quoted above completely invalidates the second one, and I agree with the first. But I like BSD anyway. :)
God damn foobar apps.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Nonsense. I mean you install the alsa drivers for your sound card. Then you install pulse audio to load and use the drivers. Then something something alsa user settings to use pulse.
So then all your app has to do is send stuff to alsa userspace thingy, which sends everything to pules, which CAN send stuff over the network, but most likely sends it to the ALSA device drivers.
2-3 hours later and XBMC with HDMI audio works great! /sarcasm.
HURD is, and will always remain, the OS of the future.