An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Squeeze release is going to be accompanied by a first-rate kFreeBSD port and now early benchmarks of this port have started coming out using daily install images. The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project is marrying the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland and glibc while making most of the Debian repository packages available for kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64. The first Debian GNU/kFreeBSD benchmarks compare the performance of it to Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.6.30 kernel while the rest of the packages are the same. Results are shown for both i386 and x86_64 flavors. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be running well, but it has a lot of catching up to do in terms of speed against Linux."<p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/1836243/Benchmarks-of-Deb ian-GNUkFreeBSD-vs-GNULinux?from=rss"><img src="http://bsd.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0 &sid=10/01/20/1836243"></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbsd.slashdot.o rg%2Fstory%2F10%2F01%2F20%2F1836243%2FBenchmarks-of-Debian-GNUkFreeBSD -vs-GNULinux" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a>
  
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