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		swaits on Feb 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel? Was there demand for this? Or, was it primarily to sidestep the GPL stuff and incorporate ZFS?

js2 on Feb 6, 2011 | [–]

I suspect a developer had an itch to scatch. See http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why

dman on Feb 6, 2011 | | [–]

Thats how Linux started :)

effigies on Feb 6, 2011 | [–]

Yes: http://www.nexenta.org/

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