Re: Irony

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:08:27 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> Is Debian/kFreeBSD ready for prime time yet? 

Depends on your definition of a prime time.
Debian security team updates Debian/kFreeBSD the same time they update
all Linux architectures.
The bad part is - hardware support is the same as of FreeBSD 9, which
is worse than Linux.

> Can you install all the same software as with regular Debian? 

All software - no. They took out Linux-specific parts, such as
iptables, iproute2, udev, mdadm, lvm2 (there may be more, but these are
definitely not in). On a bright side, it features 'native' zfs (I
won't consider anything other than Solaris to be native to zfs, still
those FreeBSD guys say so).

You'll encounter a HUGE PAIN trying to make Adobe Flash work.
Same for NVIDIA and ATI proprietary blobs.

But - then it comes to a platform-agnostic free software (and it's like
97% of Debian main archive) - it's all there.

> Is there a network install for Debian/kFreeBSD?

See [1] and [2]. 

[1] http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.6.0/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/

[2]
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/

Reco