FreeBSD 8.0 Releases

[Aaron Toponce]

I know FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution, but it's worth mentioning on this list, I think. Press release here.

Also, are there any Debian users/hackers/sysadmins on the list? Anyone running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD? I'm considering giving it a go on my laptop. Why? One word: ZFS. The kernel is currently in Squeeze, and will be marked stable for i386 and amd64 on the next release, so I see no reason why not.

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[Michael Heath]

I was familiar with several of the Debain GNU/kFreeBSD people and
development, mainly because I was subsribed to many of the same
mailing lists for my work on Debian GNU/Hurd. We actually had a lot of
package maintainers active on both projects as a lot of the porting
offered similar challenges.

My impression was that the FreeBSD port was, like the Hurd port, a bit
of a forgotten black sheep in the Debian world. They are maintained by
a limited number of people, and all application ports required manual
intervention from the buils made for linux. This made them something
to avoid.

Granted, it was 3+ years ago that I knew much about this, so it may
have shaped up since. Who knows. If you do experiment with it, let us
know how it goes.

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Michael Heath

On 11/27/09, Aaron Toponce <aaron....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution, but it's worth mentioning on
> this list, I think. Press release here.

> <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/pressrelease.html>