Any idea what the purpose is to this? I'm not putting it down, I'm just looking for context. The annotations say this work is being done at iXsystems, best known for being the stewards of FreeNAS, but this project seems to be separate.
Nor is it research. It very much appears to be commercial, since it's undertaken by iXsystems. They're integrating it into FreeNAS and I think PC-BSD will follow suit. End goal appears to be get upstream FreeBSD in it, too.
There's nothing of research value here. It's Mach. It's practically an anachronism to do such a thing deliberately.
I actually have quite a lot to say on this topic, so I think I'll write an in-depth blog post on it.
And this is why I won't use any of the "FreeBSD made easy!" distros: FreeNAS, PC-BSD, pfSense, etc. Better to learn how to configure the official release to your intended use case.
> CTO is Jordan Hubbard
I swear, every last OS always has to have one of those "let's replace all this stuff that's worked for 40 years and go with all this brand-new, much more complicated stuff because old = bad, new = good!" types.
People just don't like the idea of incremental improvements, nor find beauty in simplicity anymore.
one of the main people behind pfSense here...
You're not the target audience.
Are they planning to rebase FreeNAS on this? Why not just stay on a normal FreeBSD base? Or will there not be much noticeable difference feature wise from the user's perspective?
I can appreciate the idea of integrating launchd as a new init system and I know people have been working on that for a while, but this seems like it's much more than just that to me. Or am I misunderstanding?
I'm not sure if they're going to wholly rebase FreeNAS on top of NextBSD, but the launchd integration has been there in feature branches for a while now.