Sunday, December 6, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Looking for a distro with BSD init scripts

 

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:38:48PM -0600, Robert C Wittig wrote:
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> Scott wrote:
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> > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
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> > It's Debian with a freebsd kernel. I haven't tried it, but it does seem
> > interesting--it uses PF rather than IPtables, and has jails.
> > I suspect it will take work, at present, at least, to get it going
> > properly, and I simply haven't had the time to play with it yet.
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> Interesting.
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> I'm familiar with Debian (my son turned me on to it) and have a lot of
> experience with free and Open BSD's and have a lot of experience with
> PF on OpenBSD, so this might be something worth investigating.

Yes, pf and jails are the two things I miss most about FreeBSD. (As
work these days give me no time for it.) Shucks, Peter Hansteen said
nice things about my pf page, though it's way dated by now.

Please post about it if you have a chance to play with it.

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