OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21264/Debian_Gets_FreeBSD_Kernel_Support Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:25 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com GNU / freebsd and hurd http://www.osnews.com/thread?357378 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357378 1. If FreeBSD supports DTRACE then will GNU/kfreebsd support DTRACE?

2. Can someone summarise why the Hurd has not yet taken off? Where are they at? What is stopping them progressing? Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments This is news??? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357381 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357381 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is around since at least 2005. At least the wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD?action=info was created in 2005 (scroll down). Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KAMiKAZOW) Comments RE: GNU / freebsd and hurd http://www.osnews.com/thread?357382 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357382 @1: DTrace and ZFS should be possible.
@2: Nobody works on Hurd. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KAMiKAZOW) Comments What about Gentoo? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357385 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357385 This is similar to Gentoo's FreeBSD project, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lopisaur) Comments Is a OSNews Debian GNU/kFreeBSD review on its way? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357388 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357388 I would like one covering:

-Installation - I read it needs a BSD disk partitioning utility meaning not many people would be able to install it.

-Hardware Support - Binary blobs have been removed according to Debian(should've used a free BSD kernel instead of a FreeBSD one :p). How many things do not work that would in FreeBSD?

-Desktop Environment and Software - Does anything work at all?Edited 2009-04-06 23:05 UTC Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sakeniwefu) Comments RE: This is news??? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357390 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357390 suppositly it's now not just a port, but is strarting to look like it might be in the next release. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments RE: What about Gentoo? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357446 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357446 Quite not similar actually:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/04/06/debian-gentoo-freebsd-gnu-kfree... Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (quarkvanlepton) Comments Why? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357461 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357461 Why are they using another kernel than Linux? Is it because of the many shortcomings in Linux? Linux is buggy, says Linux Kernel developer Andrew Morton:
http://lwn.net/Articles/285088/

For instance, Linux is not that good on file serving, says a storage expert:
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/374...

I dont think the short comings are the reason. Did they change Kernel just for fun? Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments This is great http://www.osnews.com/thread?357477 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357477 I really like this. It doesnt state when it will be available but I guess the installers need to be adjusted first in order to support ZFS.
Or this calls for a FS that supports both Linux and FreeBSD so you can boot between the two. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcelkoopman) Comments RE: Why? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357522 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357522
Why are they using another kernel than Linux? Is it because of the many shortcomings in Linux? Did they change Kernel just for fun?

Its just a matter of providing options. There is nothing wrong with either kernel, its just the ability to choose. Which is very good. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcelkoopman) Comments RE[2]: This is news??? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357527 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357527 Naw, I hope this help all some what.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD#Debian_GNU.2FkFree...

Seems like the NetBSD is coming alone very nicely. I hope they accept the OpenSolaris (Nexenta) soon too. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Accident) Comments What makes FreeBSD different... http://www.osnews.com/thread?357570 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357570 What makes FreeBSD different from Linux, or sets it appart, is it's a complete OS, not just a kernel. What would be the real reason to use just the kernel in Debian? You can have the real thing complete in one package. Plus the SysV way of handling init scripts sucks horribly. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments Why? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357651 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357651 Why would I install Debian and use a FreeBSD kernel? I'd just install FreeBSD. Period. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kill) Comments Why not? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357671 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357671 its another free kernel for them to support, and they aim to be more than just a linux distro Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (spikeb) Comments RE: Why? http://www.osnews.com/thread?357704 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357704 I don't get this too. What are the (possible) benefits over FreeBSD? Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SCHWEjK) Comments