Re: Debian 6.0 , not named as GNU/Linux ?
On 8/12/2012 8:46 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
> Well, a Debian system doesn't have to use Linux any more.
On 8/12/2012 9:02 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> There are now Hurd and FreeBSD ports, so Linux is not the only kernel.
No, a Debian install doesn't require the Linux kernel. But it does if
you want a system that actually works. Debian users won't really have
their choice of kernel until they can drop a Debian GNU/KFreeBSD and/or
Debian GNU/Hurd install DVD into any desktop/laptop/server they buy and
have it work as smoothly as Debian GNU/Linux currently does. They don't
have the hardware support now, and likely never will. Why?
Compare the patch submission rate to Linux against KFreeBSD and Hurd. A
lot of that is new hardware support. Because of this, and many others
reasons, I think it's clear that these alternate kernels will forever be
experimental.
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Stan
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