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Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be dropped from Debian 8

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday October 08 2014, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the needs-a-systemd-port dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

According to an email sent to the Debian debian-devel-announce mailing list by Adam D. Barratt, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port is in grave danger of being dropped from the upcoming Debian 8 "Jessie" release. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD runs the GNU userland tools, the GNU C library and the Debian package set on top of the FreeBSD kernel.

Barratt states:

We remain gravely concerned about the viability of this port. Despite the reduced scope, we feel that the port is not currently of sufficient quality to feature as a fully supported release architecture in Jessie.

We therefore advise the kFreeBSD porters that the port is in danger of being dropped from Jessie, and invite any porters who are able to commit to working on the port in the long term to make themselves known *now*.

We will assess the viability of kFreeBSD in Jessie on or after 1st November, and a yes/no decision will be taken at that time.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Wednesday October 08 2014, @08:54AM

    by mtrycz (60) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @08:54AM (#103498)

    2015 Year of BSDesktop?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @10:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @10:42AM (#103521)

    Well, when I get my flashy new desktop I'll be putting PCBSD on it. Or just vanilla FreeBSD - I've not decided that one yet.

  • (Score: 2) by danomac on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:50PM

    by danomac (979) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:50PM (#103662)
    No, 2015 is the year of the systemDesktop.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 08 2014, @05:50PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday October 08 2014, @05:50PM (#103682) Journal

      You mean they'll integrate X11 into systemD?

      No wait .. they'll integrate Wayland. And then make X11 dependent on Wayland.

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