Debian with a FreeBSD Kernel?

It was announced today that the Debian distribution has added support for the FreeBSD kernel to the Debian archive with supporting both x86 and amd64 architectures. Allowing users to choose between running a normal Linux kernel or a FreeBSD based one.

Which begs the question why would you want to run a FreeBSD kernel? BSD offers some very good security features such as BSD packet filter (pf) and jails which allow the imprisonment of processes and their children to certain parts of system.

I personally can’t wait to get some free time in order to take for a test drive. I have always loved FreeBSD, but never the greatest fan of the “ports” system of application management at least this way i will be able to handle packages with convienance of apt.

FreeBSD Daemon Mascot

Further Reading:

kFreeBSD Why? – Debian Wiki

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