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posted by martyb on Friday August 28 2015, @04:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the kernel-sanders dept.

FreeBSD hackers Jordan Hubbard and Kip Macy surprised an audience of Bay Area FreeBSD Users in August 2015 by laying out their version for a new architecture, based vaguely on BSD but with a microkernel and an event-driven framework consisting of something like libdispatch and launchd. Those are big changes if you are familiar with what FreeBSD has looked like for all of its life.

The good news is, this doesn't mean the destruction of the FreeBSD we all know and love. In fact, Hubbard, who is also the CTO of ixSystems (developers of FreeNAS and PCBSD, both products derived from FreeBSD) aren't aiming to impact FreeBSD but rather change the fundamental architecture of ixSystems' own products.

The slide deck walks you through the proposed, new architecture. Better still, watch the talk yourself.

As a FreeBSD fan, I'm glad they're treating this as a separate product and not hacking up the FreeBSD source tree; that gives us time to see how this shakes out.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Rich on Friday August 28 2015, @02:01PM

    by Rich (945) on Friday August 28 2015, @02:01PM (#228976) Journal

    Well, take it from a native German that the OP was not proper German and, Linux is not feminine. It is neuter. Which comes from the fact that in such cases the Germans "virtually think" their appropriate word behind the name. Which in this case is "Betriebssystem", consisting of "der Betrieb" und "das System", of which the last part determines the final gender. Couldn't be more easy, could it ;)

    On the topic, i look forward to the shootout between their launchd and systemd :P

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