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Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings

Posted by timothy on from the but-is-it-certified dept.

prisoninmate writes: What's ubuntuBSD? Well, it's not that hard to figure out yourself, but just in case you're not sure, we can tell you that ubuntuBSD promises to bring the power of the FreeBSD kernel to Ubuntu Linux. The best part of using the FreeBSD kernel is that you'll end up using the famous Z File System, or ZFS. Xfce is also included along with the popular Firefox, LibreOffice, and Ubuntu Software Center apps. ubuntuBSD is inspired by the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project, it is hosted on SourceForge, and has been created by Jon Boden.

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  1. Thanks summary by orledrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for answering the question "What's UbuntuBSD?" seeing as this is Slashdot it would have been more useful to explain "What's a human being?". You insensitive clod.

    1. Re:Thanks summary by Kjella · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thanks for answering the question "What's UbuntuBSD?" seeing as this is Slashdot it would have been more useful to explain "What's a human being?". You insensitive clod.

      It would, but all we got is an undocumented blob written in quad-bits (ACGT) and the original developer can't be reached. Not that it'd do much good, the code is constantly morphing through forking off new child processes while old ones come to a halt so there's probably little of the original left. There was an instruction manual too, but it's equally cryptic like "Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground". Source control seems completely absent so there's billions of versions in production. While we're making some progress on reverse engineering to fix the most critical bugs it's mostly a black box project full of unexplained and absurd behaviors. Like making dry jokes on a nerd website.

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  2. Re:As opposed to? by cfalcon · · Score: 5, Funny

    OS X is for dolphins, Windows is for monkeys, standard BSDs are for superior alien beings, and Linux is for robot overlords with laser eyes.

  3. Re: Yea, but systemd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Spell it SystemD. That way it looks like a dick thats rammed hard into the user's asses.

  4. Re:Why would anyone want this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Infidel! Wash your mouth out with soap immediately! Didn't you know that BSD is perfect and not to be criticized?