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ubuntuBSD Beta Release

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the competitors-become-kin dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Phoronix reports

The inaugural release of ubuntuBSD is now available, which the developers have codenamed "Escape From SystemD". [It] pairs the Ubuntu userspace with the FreeBSD kernel.

... This first ubuntuBSD beta release is based off Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf and the FreeBSD 10.1 kernel.

This Ubuntu+FreeBSD operating system ships with the Xfce desktop, is designed for both servers and desktops, and offers complete ZFS file-system support.

The project's SourceForge page
N.B. The ubuntuBSD Web Site link is currently a circular trip back to SourceForge.

[Additional coverage at softpedia. For the impatient/adventuresome here is a direct link to download the latest ISO (893.8 MB ubuntuBSD 15.10~BETA2-amd64.iso). -Ed.]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @03:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @03:47AM (#321401)
    I think those willing to have a FreeBSD kernel tend to be those that go for the FreeBSD userspace too, so this would be really niche.

    The FreeBSD userspace is actually decent. Years ago when I was using FreeBSD the man pages were better than the GNU ones. In fact back then the reason why I used Linux was more because of the Linux kernel[1] and definitely not for the GNU userspace. The GNU userspace was inferior in many aspects. Perhaps things have changed in recent years.

    [1] There are a number of things the Linux kernel was and is better at than the FreeBSD kernel.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Arik on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:59AM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:59AM (#321417) Journal
    The man pages have always been and will always be better for FreeBSD. That's because they actually regard them as official documentation to be maintained.

    GNU projects do not. Official documention for GNU userspace will be found using info, not man. Man is deprecated and included for historical reasons, but not typically maintained at all. Use info instead.
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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bitstream on Tuesday March 22 2016, @05:35AM

      by bitstream (6144) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @05:35AM (#321433) Journal

      Seems like the management style of bad neighborhoods.

    • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:09PM

      by jdavidb (5690) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:09PM (#321610) Homepage Journal
      I always find documentation by Googling.
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      • (Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday March 23 2016, @05:45AM

        by bitstream (6144) on Wednesday March 23 2016, @05:45AM (#321967) Journal

        Perfect when all you have a text console because the network is really down.