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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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level of management.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:01AM
Just install FreeBSD
It has XFCE, KDE, Gnome, and probably a few more in ports.
I see no reason to chase something that is neither fish nor fowl.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:56AM
If I want BSD I will get it from a source I trust.
Why on Earth would I want to get BSD from a company that already loused up their own Linux distro with systemd, and then turns around and tells me to use their BSD to get rid of it?
If they really wish to escape from systemd they should simply remove it. It's far from required, and the only reason it might one day become required is because of distros like Ubuntu fouling their codebase with it so eagerly. For the same lice to come out and claim to offer a way to escape the plague that THEY forced on their users to begin with like this is... chutzpah seems too weak.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday March 22 2016, @05:15AM
As I understand it, Neither FreeBSD nor Ubuntu (Canonical) is involved.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday March 22 2016, @03:31PM
If Canonical is not involved, watch the next article about this distribution be titled to the effect "ubuntuBSD Forced to Change Name".
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday March 23 2016, @06:20AM
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
They've let some others slide, but I could see them moving against this.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday March 22 2016, @05:20AM
systemd-udevd or some eudev,vdev replacement is needed for X applications. Reverting to a sane init already helps, though.
I once even removed parallel init, insserv iirc, I need to see if the card gets up, if not i gotta replug it in and looking at the dhcp handshake lets me do it in the FASTEST way.
Different people, different needs.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:56PM
I recommend Slackware because that's what's given me the best results but there are plenty of choices; http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Free.2FOpen_Source_Operating_systems_without_systemd_in_the_default_installation
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Francis on Tuesday March 22 2016, @07:48AM
Perhaps they really love gnu, but hate Linux.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @09:30AM
That person is already running GNU Herd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @09:38AM
*Hurd
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:59PM
*Turd
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:09PM
Yeah, you can't really call one person a herd.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 22 2016, @12:05PM
Lots of GNU stuff runs great on freebsd. Just for big apps I roughly daily use emacs, R, ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @09:51PM
Yes it's a simple matter of installing the GNU utilities from ports then aliasing ls to gls and tar to gtar etc. Should be less than an hour's work.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday March 23 2016, @12:36AM
It doesn't make much sense to me as it looks like the worst of both world. You get the inconsistent userland of Linux without the complete compatibility with Linux programs and drivers.
I assume that some people have a reason for doing it, but it doesn't make much sense to me to use a BSD kernel with a non-standard userland.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday March 23 2016, @02:43PM
I don't think I'd do that today though. I'd just install BSD and start working with it, and expect to add a bit of GNU here and there when I run into a *reason* that I need it.
The main reason I quit running BSD years ago was because of advances in the linux kernel, not because of userland which is after all easily modified. The main reason I'd consider returning would be if the linux kernel does become systemd dependent. But as much as systemd folks like to think it already is - it is not. There are lots of linux distros that function perfectly without it.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday March 22 2016, @07:38PM
And if the point is to escape systemd, there are other options as well.
I myself migrated to Devuan as soon as Mint succumbed to systemd. Everything works, and I even play Steam games (XCOM).