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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:35 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak writes on comp.lang.ada:
> W dniu poniedziałek, 7 stycznia 2013 00:19:12 UTC+1 użytkownik Ludovic Brenta napisał:
>
>>> My alternative choice would be a FreeBSD machine,
>
>> Ah but there's also Debian GNU/kFreeBSD :)
>
> Which, from the point of view of finding help and support, is neither
> Debian nor FreeBSD. If something breaks and I get lost, who's going to
> help me?

Why, the developers themselves, of course.  They are reachable on the
dedicated mailing list, at http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd.

If I had time, I'd certainly experiment with the support for ZFS and
FreeBSD jails that this port of Debian supports.

> On the other hand, this might be worth trying anyway.

Yes.

When Linux stopped booting on my 2001-vintage IBM ThinkPad T22 (probably
due to RAM or chipset problems), I revived this machine by installing
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on it; that kernel did boot and made the machine
usable for another year -- its third life, so so speak, after Windows
and Debian GNU/Linux.  This machine finally died and is still in my
basement, as a source for spare parts :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.