docs/181874: [PATCH] Add Debian GNU/kFreeBSD to advocacy/myths.xml

Johannes Jost Meixner xmj at chaot.net
Fri Sep 6 16:30:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         181874
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] Add Debian GNU/kFreeBSD to advocacy/myths.xml
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 06 16:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Johannes Jost Meixner
>Release:        FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
Goldener Grund OUe
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mx12 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1 r255210M: Thu Sep 5 00:23:11 EEST 2013 root at mx12:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xmj.debug amd64
>Description:
While http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html lists Gentoo/FreeBSD as
derivative project, it ignores the more stable Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

The attached diff fixes this, giving reasons for its existence from
https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

--- docs-advocacy-myths.xml.diff begins here ---
Index: myths.xml
===================================================================
--- myths.xml	(revision 42618)
+++ myths.xml	(working copy)
@@ -200,6 +200,12 @@
 	  FreeBSD kernel and userland.  This project is purely
 	  incomplete and experimental.</p></li>
 
+	<li><p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD">Debian GNU/FreeBSD</a>
+	  is a port of the Debian GNU userland tools to the FreeBSD kernel, 
+	  taking advantage of, among other things, the devfs implementation
+	  (versus three discordant Linux interfaces), security features (like 
+      jails, ipfw and pf), and ZFS.</p></li>
+
 	<li><p><a href="http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/">m0n0wall</a> is
 	  a FreeBSD based firewall system that has
 	  many of the features of expensive firewalls like web
--- docs-advocacy-myths.xml.diff ends here ---


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