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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: 2) by Marand on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:06AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:06AM (#321407) Journal

    "used to offer"? Bullshit, it's still available as of the current stable release (jessie): https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD/Jessie [debian.org]

    It's still there and usable, it just wasn't considered an "official" part of the Jessie release because the port had issues at the time they froze* Jessie, that's all.

    * the period at the end of a testing release where they stop pulling packages in from unstable and go into bugfix mode prior to making it the next stable release.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:17AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @04:17AM (#321410) Journal

    I hate self-replying but this same topic just hit my RSS feed for the Register (link [theregister.co.uk]), and it quotes one of the UbuntuBSD devs, who said the project owes a lot to the same Debian BSD project I linked to above and thanked them for collaborating to make it possible.

    Might have been nice if Phoronix had mentioned that instead of just declaring Debian BSD defunct, but whatever, it's Phoronix; the site's about as reliable as Kotaku most days.