------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port [email protected] October 7th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20091007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handeld 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. About Debian ------------ The Debian Project is an organisation of more than one thousand Free Software developers from all over the world who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating system Debian GNU/Linux. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique. Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at <http://www.debian.org/> or send mail to <[email protected]>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
