Debian to ship with FreeBSD Kernel Option.
October 8, 2009 | No Comments | Featured, Uncategorized
According to our friends over at TheRegister; Debian 6.0 (codenamed “Squeeze”) is going to be shipped with the option of a FreeBSD Kernel as opposed to the Linux one of distributions past.
This option will be named “KFreeBSD” (Short For KernelFreeBSD??) and will primarily be available on i386 and amd64 architectures (which will cater for most of us).
The use of a FreeBSD kernel will provide features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers and make Debian the only mainstream OS to concurrently support 2 different Kernels.
Over the past few years Debian has gained some serious traction, Its packaging system (aptitude) is by far the easiest to use and one of its derivatives (ubuntu) is the OS of choice for modern netbooks.
It makes me happy to know that there are still some forward thinking people in this world and I see this announcement as a massive plus for the *nix community in general.
Watch this space…
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