The upcoming ubuntuBSD distro has been in development since March 2016, and it is now time for it to enter the spotlight. The final release is due soon according to the latest tweet from the project’s official Twitter page.
For those behind their ubuntuBSD reading, this is a unique project that aims to offer users a desktop-oriented operating system combining the familiarity of the Ubuntu/Debian platforms with the power of the FreeBSD kernel.
Until today, the development of ubuntuBSD took place under the 15.10 version number, which means that it was based on the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), whose end of life support is approaching very fast (sometime next month).
But it looks like the developer, Jon Boden, has been working hard in the past few weeks to rebase the upcoming OS on Canonical’s latest distribution, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), as well as the kernel from FreeBSD 10.3.
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