On 13/10/2014 1:07 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Andrew McGlashan writes:
For Debian people, an easier migration path that seems very viable today will be kFreeBSD
"We remain gravely concerned about the viability of this port. [...] the port is in danger of being dropped from Jessie, and [we] invite any porters who are able to commit to working on the port in the long term to make themselves known *now*."
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/09/msg00002.html
Well, that was an /old/ report, it certainly looks like kFreeBSD is in a really healthy state and is really moving forward very well since that news announcement. I'll re-post the rest of what I wrote, be sure to read through the whole message from Steven Chamberlain, at least he has empathy for the problems of systemd. This penned as possible news on kFreeBSD for upcoming publicity: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/10/msg00146.html - "GNU/kFreeBSD "bits", publicity, status report" - - following on thread of "kFreeBSD future" https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/09/msg00280.html In a nutshell: MATE, not gnome no systemd, freedesktop.org sysvinit, potentially OpenRC later consolekit patched 90% compiled base very usable desktop (not just for servers) I've got to specifically quote this small, but important /delicate/ section of Steven Chamberlain message: <quote> * (delicately!) mention init system, still being a hot topic - no udev or systemd here; I guess that makes us a "traditional" Debian flavour, UNIX-like and POSIX-focused - we did lose GNOME (I think mainly due to logind, but also libgbm) - otherwise, we seem to have all we need; Robert fixed up consolekit - we chose to keep sysvinit as default, but are in a position to easily use alternate init systems; OpenRC looks promising for the future (perhaps usable already?); I guess file-rc still works </quote> *Much* progress from Wheezy, very promising future. A.