Simon McVittie <[email protected]> writes: > Is Linux suitable for all purposes for which an OS is needed? I think > that's an open question. I'm not at all convinced that the ability to > use kFreeBSD or Hurd makes Debian any more universal (in terms of people > who can use it, or things you can use it for) than it already was, but > the people working on those ports clearly think there's some benefit in > supporting them.
Just to add a data point here, I've been able to get a fairly substantial project to use Debian when they otherwise wouldn't have considered it because of the existence of the kFreeBSD port, specifically due to it providing a clean way to run ZFS as a kernel file system on Debian. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
