Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port

Michael Lauzon mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 8 14:13:14 UTC 2009


October 7th, 2009

The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees the port
of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handled equal
with the other release ports. The upcoming release codenamed 'Squeeze'
is planned to be the first Debian distribution to be released with
Linux and FreeBSD kernels.

The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386
processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on
these architectures will be considered release critical the same way
as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular
package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this
problem is considered release-critical.

Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into
the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users
a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides
features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS
drivers in the mainline kernel with full support.

http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20091007

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Michael Lauzon
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