The Debian Project has announced that with the next release, FreeBSD kernel will be used as the base for its distribution. It would also make Debian as an authentic UNIX, as FreeBSD is an authentic UNIX, as it is based on BSD 4.4.

It‚Äôs apparent that Debian’s main inspiration for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is an initiative to offer its users a wide range of kernels, and this kernel also supports valuable features like jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filtering and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support. Other apparent reasons are to provide better security, it might also get ZFS support into the future package, and perhaps better performance of the UNIX kernel over the Linux kernel.

Another possible reason for this practice, is to avoid any legal implications in future, as this kernel is untouchable by any SCO ruling, the reason for this is because its an authentic UNIX, and was released earlier then Linux.

Second possible reason to use FreeBSD kernel may be that in case any of the legal problems of SCO  with Linux . This kernel is untouchable by any SCO ruling, again, because it is authentic Unix, and pre-dates the work of Linus Torvalds.

The next stable version, which will feature this kernel, will be called Squeeze. The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free, community project.

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