Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
I have been extremely busy with school this week, but tonight I had about an hour to do something. So I decided to try out Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. This is a very interesting OS to me because of my love of both Debian and FreeBSD.
Many people ask about the name. It stands for GNU userland and kernel of FreeBSD. Not only does it come with glibc and the rest of the GNU userland, but it also has most of the Debian packages ported over for use with the apt-get port.
I highly recommend people try it that may want to use BSD as a server, but can’t leave their linux setup. They are extremely similar with this setup. Only problem I noticed was that you need to manually run dhclient and reboot on the first bootup to get it to setup your nic correctly. Other than that, I’ll be looking forward to getting a working gnome or KDE port on this system. :)
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On November 16th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Hi! I’ve selected Ubuntu for my desktops (home network), but I’m still shopping for a Server OS (Ubuntu is still missing somewhat in that area).
I would like to use Debian stable (when sarge hits the net), and I saw talks that they will introduce a fixed release cycle like Ubuntu (but 12-18 months).
Can anyone confirm if there is already a decision on that? I dread installing something that is nog going to be updated another 3 years :)
Thanx for any help)
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On November 16th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Hmm I’m not really sure. I would suggest asking on the Debian mailing lists or in the irc chatroom. It would definitely be an improvement.
As for Debian not being updated, it’s kept pretty up-to-date, so there really isn’t much to worry about there. If you want a new release every 6-months, use Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is debian based and, in fact, has most of the exact same packages. There is even a server version of it. I would suggest trying it out. :)
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