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:ROTFL @ server OS == Windows

[Xabraxas]

Windows IS a desktop OS, not a network OS. Notice it's not usable except by clicking desktop icons?

Not true. Sure Powershell sucks but it is available.

A server OS doesn't require rebooting every week or every month

Seriously? This isn't 1999. I have Windows Servers up for much longer than that.

A server OS can handle hotswap hardware. I swap drives regularly, and we've even hotswapped a CPU

The only thing most people need to hotswap in a server are disks and that is easily done in Windows

A server OS has mandatory access control.

Windows has this.

the bottom line is that Windows is a very successful desktop operating system. One originally developed as a user-friendly shell for Disk Operating System

You really are working off of pre-2000 Windows knowledge. Current Windows implementations are not at all based on DOS despite their similarity to earlier Windows systems. What bothers me the most is that I'm a Linux guy and you're making me defend Windows because you can't just say things that are not true.