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."

Comments

Re:I bet the HURD team is turning in their graves.

[rickb928]

Wait a minit. HURD is just another Plan 9.

You WANT to do that? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously, HURD is pointless. If I want more CPUs, I buy a bigger chip. If I want more cores, I code it for GPGPU and get more cores on more video cards. If I want more drives, I get SASI or some other expensive SAN technology.

HURD doesn't solve anything. Of course, that makes it a great open source project. And some day, somewhere, someone will make something useful out of it.

Open Source Wins! Yaaaaaah!

Whatever.