On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 14:00 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"):
> > What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware
> > support.
>
> What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are
> reasons why some users prefer the BSD kernel to Linux. Talking as if
> increased hardware support were the sole criterion to prefer one
> kernel to another is to miss those reasons.
>
> There are some serious problems with the Linux kernel. I still run it
> but I am much more comfortable that there is a choice.The question is why that choice has to exist within Debian. > > I fundamentally disagree with the idea that all our packages must avoid > > relying on certain features because some developers want to experiment > > with FreeBSD (which already has a Linux emulation layer) or Hurd (a > > long-running joke) and they are lacking these features. This doesn't > > serve users, it serves those developers. > > I don't know how many Debian kFreeBSD users there are. But neither do > you. Current popcon counts for the release architecture are: i386 : 64901 amd64 : 42128 armel : 1248 powerpc : 592 sparc : 249 ia64 : 63 kfreebsd-amd64 : 40 mipsel : 39 kfreebsd-i386 : 36 s390 : 11 mips : 7 The graphs seem to show each of the kFreeBSD architectures going from about 20 installations before 'squeeze' release, increasing sharply, then dropping to their current values. I don't doubt there are users outside of the project itself. There just aren't very many. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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