Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Oct 2009 22:34 UTC
It's hard to turn a news item like this into a front page item, but I'm going to try anyway, because I think it's pretty cool news. As we all know, Debian supports a number of architectures as 'release architectures', but what some of you may not be aware of is that Debian also supports a number of kernels other than Linux. One of those, the FreeBSD kernel, has been promoted to release status, putting it on equal footing with the Linux variant.
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RE: *BSD are cool but could be improved
by da_Chicken on Fri 9th Oct 2009 20:43
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To answer my own question, apparently there has been a 2009 Google Summer of Code project for porting the debian-installer to support Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, but it's currently still a work in progress. Additional info can be found here:
http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/search/label/gsoc
http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
RE: *BSD are cool but could be improved
by Anton_Andreev on Sat 10th Oct 2009 22:03
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Personally, I kind of like the *BSD idea that you keep the basic Unix-like operating system (kernel + userland) stable while the applications have a "rolling release" updating scheme. Linux (the kernel part of the GNU/Linux operating system) changes way too often and breaks stuff also way too often.
Debian GNU/Linux already has a "testing" branch where applications get "rolling release"-style updates, but also the basic operating system (Linux + GNU) changes all the time -- and I don't particularly like that.
I'd much prefer to use a *BSD system, but none of the *BSD flavours seems to support the latest versions of LyX. I'm an academic who uses LyX as my basic document editor, and I prefer to use the new features that the latest LyX offers.
So Debian/kFreeBSD could be the solution to my problems with GNU/Linux. If it can offer the stability of *BSD plus the latest versions of applications (like LyX), then I'm all for it.
Any idea if there's a version of the Debian-installer that already supports GNU/kFreeBSD?