[aklug] Re: GNU/KfreeBSD

On Monday 18 January 2010 07:56:53 pm Tim Gibney wrote:
> Why don't you try the official FreeBSD set? Gnome and KDE are well tested
> in that environment or are heavily patched for FreeBSD. FreeBSD is simply
> different than Gnu/Linux and you can;t just replace the kernel. Different
> libc and unix utilities.

Hopefully i didn't give the impression 'i' was doing this, it is a Debian t=
hing,=20
which I like to use.=20

=46rom Debians site:
"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU =
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library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package=
 set."

> It does not come with gnu utils or bash but you=20
> can install it in /usr/ports by simplying typing make in /usr/ports/gnome.
> There are thousands of makefiles that can check for dependencies and
> install any package that is port of the FreeBSD port system. I believe
> FreeBSD has binary packages now (I have not touched it since 2005) so it
> may be even easier.
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net>wr=
ote:
> > Okay, giving the BSd kernel a go with Debian. KfreeBSd is now a release
> > architecture for Debian, it is treated as an equal with all other arch'=
s.
> >
> > It took me quite a bit of effort to get it installed in a vm. Tried
> > virtualbox and
> > vmware, vmware was the one I finally got it to work on, maybe just luck
> > of the
> > draw. I had to do a minimal install , then add packages to suit, a full
> > Gnome
> > install kept failing. It seems that kvm is what folks on the kfreebsd
> > list are
> > using, I have not tried kvm.
> >
> >
> > I imagine since it is a release arch it will get to the same drop dead
> > simple
> > install/use of the other arch's.
> > --
> > Peace
> >
> > Greg Madden
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Received on Tue Jan 19 15:16:45 2010