Benchmarking Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD

news · January 18, 2010

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Title: Benchmarking Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "There has been an effort underway within the Debian

development community to pull the FreeBSD kernel within this

distribution to provide an alternative to using the Linux kernel. In

essence with this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project you have the standard

Debian package set providing a GNU user-land with a GNU C library, but

the FreeBSD kernel is running underneath. The Debian project has also

been working on Debian GNU/Hurd to effectively do the same thing but

with the GNU Mach microkernel. But unlike Debian GNU/Hurd, with the

release of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze", Debian GNU/kFreeBSD will reach a

release status. With the Debian Squeeze release being just two months

away we have decided to provide the first public set of benchmarks that

compare the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD performance to that of Debian GNU/Linux.

We have tested both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Debian with the

Linux and FreeBSD kernels."

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