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Recent improvements with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 5, 2011

The “technology preview” label indicated, among other things,
that it had a number of limitations when compared with what users
would expect: missing features, incomplete functionality, etc.

But it has seen many noteworthy improvements since then. Here
are some that I would like to mention:

Graphical installer support in D-I.
Userland support for FreeBSD Jails has been imported.
Userland support for encrypting disk partitions (geli) has been
imported.
FUSE support is now provided by fuse4bsd.
After NFS daemons and utilities has been packaged, it is finally
possible to mount NFS file systems.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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