I'd love to do this, but heading to Germany in August isn't really practical for me right now (I also don't have any meaningful credentials :P). Some key points I'd recommend: - Why kFreeBSD is good for the ecosystem (competition fuels open source projects, encourages writing of platform-independent glibc code) - glibc + GNU userspace = familiar environment for the Linux user, with the benefit of some cool BSD kernel features * pf vs iptables (readability, speed+statefulness) * ZFS vs LVM (ZFS send/receive and upgrades, RAID effectiveness) * jails vs linux solutions like linux containers and UML (one tool included in the kernel vs a conglomeration of many)
Some other cool kFreeBSD tricks: - Linux compat layer - Maybe include a demo of a Squeeze i386 Linux system running in a jail and what this could mean for the future - Static FreeBSD binaries can run in a kFreeBSD system >This would necessarily include a demo / showcase of what jessie-kfreebsd can do already. - minetest, openarena, and sauerbraten all in the repos and functioning - WebGL stuff works on IceWeasel (from sid): ( http://pirateradiotheater.org/files/m.grl/demos/06_models/) On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We should give a talk on GNU/kFreeBSD at DebConf15. I'm happy to > volunteer for this, but also welcome others to participate, or just > suggest some additional topics to cover. > > The deadline for submissions is 15th June, so I'm putting in a > request now for a 20-minute talk. If we have even more things > to cover, we could maybe still try to schedule a lightning talk. > > Ideal outcomes of a talk from my POV would be: > * convince more people that Debian should support multiple kernels; > * encourage more people to get involved, explaining how; > * tempt some people to try it for the first time, or see how it's > improved since they tried it last; > * start thinking about how kfreebsd, hurd or other ports should fit > alongside official testing/stable suites. > > This would necessarily include a demo / showcase of what jessie-kfreebsd > can do already. I'd also like to throw in: > * a bit of history; > * how the jessie-kfreebsd release was (will be) done, give credit to > those responsible; > * some principles about porting - as I see it - how we do/don't want > to do things. > > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > ste...@pyro.eu.org >
