by Cao | Sep 30, 2014 | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Debian developers warned in a mailing list post that Debian kFreeBSD is at risk of being dropped from official support. kFreeBSD ======== We remain gravely concerned about the viability of this port. Despite the reduced scope, we feel that the port is not currently of...
by iXsystems | Feb 24, 2014 | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
FreeBSD vt(4) – commonly known as “Newcons”-, which is planned to replace Syscons as the default FreeBSD console, is now available on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Newcons provides many interesting new features, such as KMS support, Unicode, double-width CJK characters,...
by iXsystems | Jun 11, 2013 | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
With the new Debian 7.0 Wheezy released, it was time for Phoronix to update some benchmarks comparing Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs Debian 7.0: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs Debian 7.0 GNU/Linux. The outcomes have not changed much since last December’s test: Debian is overall...
by iXsystems | Jan 29, 2013 | ArchBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Gentoo FreeBSD
The Arch Linux distribution has been modified to run off the FreeBSD 9.0 kernel as an alternative to using Linux. The developer of ArchBSD explained his reasoning as enjoying FreeBSD while also liking the Arch Linux philosophy of a ‘fast, lightweight, optimized...
by iXsystems | Jan 26, 2011 | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Continuing with the “2011? series, let’s have a look today at the development planned for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Earlier posts can be found here: PC-BSD, pfSense, HeX Live, MaheshaBSD, GhostBSD. Robert Millan from the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project emailed an update for...
