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

Posted by BeauHD on from the looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places dept.

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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  1. Kernel not just plug and play by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I got into a debate with my former Linux users group on this when a fork of Debian hit a half decade ago with FreeBSD.

    Everything from gnome to pulse audio to SystemD is integrated in Linux. People act as if you can swap the kernel out and still run or even compile anything. I am shocked anything works at all with gnome on non Linux platforms as things are so proprietary and tight. Yes it's gnu, but what I mean by proprietary is Linux and not Unix standard way it does things since 2006

    FreeBSD is a server oriented OS as far as I am concerned

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    1. Re:Kernel not just plug and play by tomxor · · Score: 3, Insightful

      FreeBSD is a server oriented OS as far as I am concerned

      Posting from FreeBSD 10.3 on my macbook... seems like a pretty good desktop to me, but it's a personal choice, so yes "as far as you are concerned". The only major barrier for any OS being an easy to use desktop is hardware support, anything which isn't super popular will have this issue especially where open source drivers aren't available for porting.

  2. Re:Why? by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    JUST TAKE THE KERNEL PARTS YOU WANT AND LEAVE *BSD ALONE. WE DON'T WANT YOUR CORRUPTION.

    That's a great suggestion. You should give it to the people who are already doing exactly what you're shouting about. Now please go and play with your FreeBSD system and leave the people having a discussion about a different OS alone.