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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: 1) by Francis on Wednesday March 23 2016, @12:36AM

    by Francis (5544) on Wednesday March 23 2016, @12:36AM (#321900)

    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

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday March 23 2016, @02:43PM (#322099) Journal
    Well if I wanted to run the GNU utilities on BSD I would install BSD first and then compile GNU and install it. And you can do that, it's been awhile but as I recall it's not that big a deal. Should be a lot faster with a modern processor underneath the compiler too.

    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.

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