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ubuntuBSD Beta Release

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

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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.

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[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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• Re:What's the point? (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:56PM

  by Arik (4543) on Tuesday March 22 2016, @02:56PM (#321649) Journal

  You don't have to replace anything if you simply choose one of the many Linux distros that don't use systemd to begin with.
  
  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

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