Open Source at it's best: Take two existing things and
combine them to something new.
Overview
What is it exactly? What does the name stand for?
Why?
Comparison with Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
Similar Projects
Typical Issues Developers had
What's still missing?
The Future
Contact / Resources
What is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD exactly?
It's a port, it's its own architecture, i.e. including build daemons and porter machines.
(Well, two ports/architectures: kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 for now, short k-i and k-a)
Since April 2009 it's part of the official Debian archive. Was hosted at Debian-Ports.org before.
Released with Debian 6.0 Squeeze as Technology Preview just hours ago.
You cannot have Linux and kFreeBSD kernel in the same installation or switch between them
So it's not as easy as "apt-get install freebsd", but
"apt-get install kfreebsd-source-$version" works though, also on
Debian GNU/Linux since 4.0 (Etch). :-)
Marius Nünnerich and Thorsten Glaser for the idea to this talk
Petr Salinger, Aurelien Jarno, Björn A. Zeeb, Guillem
Jover, Witold Baryluk and Cyril Brulebois for proof-reading
these slides, comments and suggestions on short notice :-)