UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com)

prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: UbuntuBSD maintainer and lead developer Jon Boden is now looking for a way for his operating system to contribute to the Ubuntu community and, eventually, become an official Ubuntu flavor. Just two weeks ago, [Softpedia] introduced the ubuntuBSD project, whose main design goal is to bring users an operating system powered by the FreeBSD kernel while offering them the familiarity of the Ubuntu Linux OS. Right now, ubuntuBSD is in heavy development, with a fourth Beta build out the door, and it looks like the developer already seeks official status and wants to contribute all of his work to the main Ubuntu channels. [Canonical has yet to respond.]

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Re:Kernel not just plug and play

[thegarbz]

Posting from FreeBSD 10.3 on my macbook... seems like a pretty good desktop to me

Define desktop. Being able to post online using a browser is not something that makes a good desktop. Being able to seamlessly as possible handle the stupendously uncountable possible user cases that make up "desktop computing" is what makes a desktop.

Yeah we could all run Windows 2008 Server and call it a desktop, but quite frankly the design decisions made in the OS are what define it to be a desktop or a server OS and that has a direct impact to using it as either. e.g. the scheduler for a desktop OS and an OS that prioritises background tasks should be different in order to achieve the best performance in a given situation.

Wow, just wow. Congratulations Slashdot.

[yusing]

I actually read many (not all) of the comments on this topic, and - unusual even for Slashdot - there was NOTHING of value. This topic will appear at Hacker News, and it will contain at least 50% intelligent and thoughtful remarks.

Dropping in on a technical Slashdot thread these days is like visiting a religious convention of snot-throwers being hosted by Youtube. As a result, I (and I'm sure many others) read very little of what all of you zealots have to say. If that's your desire, congratulations. Enjoy your porn pit.