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GNU/kFreeBSDGNU/kFreeBSDPosted Jan 28, 2008 3:13 UTC (Mon) by paragw (guest, #45306)Parent article: LCA: The state of Debian
"...port may be of interest to those Debian users who have been increasingly unhappy with the "multimedia-oriented" nature of Linux-based systems" What is "multimedia-oriented nature" supposed to mean? The project page too doesn't explain anything about it. Anyone knows what's the idea behind this port - it sure seems like significant effort and there ought to be reasons better than just for the heck of it?
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GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Jan 28, 2008 12:59 UTC (Mon) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] Ha. Sounds like a codec argument in disguise, but this isn't a license change -- it's still GNU software, on free Debian, just with a BSD kernel. Next question -- where did you find that statement? It'd be nice to have a referent to what you're commenting on, unless it's from the lost half of the text.
GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Jan 28, 2008 15:01 UTC (Mon) by paragw (guest, #45306) [Link] It was right there in this article text when I commented - no longer there. Not sure what happened.
the multimedia orientation is the distro Posted Jan 28, 2008 21:58 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] the 'increasing multimedia orientation' is a thing the distros are doing, not the kernel. the kernel folks are working to solve any problems that the kernel has that cause grief with multimedia use, but usually these impovements help other workloads as well. putting the same multi-media oriented userspace on top of a different kernel won't help unless the new kernel is a better fit for multimedia uses, and I haven't heard that the *bsd kernels are multimedia powerhouses.
GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Jan 28, 2008 22:04 UTC (Mon) by madduck (guest, #14606) [Link] I suppose I should not have made this comment as a representative of the Debian project, and I probably did unjust to the Linux kernel in whole. This is entirely a personal issue, I have a number of problems with Linux memory management, scheduling, and some other points relevant to production use. I've had some of these problems for years, but they seem never to get fixed, while development is fast-paced. Then I look at some of the work being done and I wonder what the priorities are. Regardless, I should not have made this comment and I apologise for it.
GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Jan 29, 2008 1:20 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Don't worry so much about the thought police. :) Just explain that you don't want people to misunderstand you. It's a natural side effect of a human language that these things happen.
GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Jan 29, 2008 1:33 UTC (Tue) by madduck (guest, #14606) [Link] I don't. But since the statement I made is not important to me, it's best to just retract it.
GNU/kFreeBSD Posted Feb 1, 2008 16:38 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] Simple. ZFS. It's in FreeBSD kernel. Now Debian has only to borrow apt-clone from Nexenta to be dream OS.
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