You can now use Debian without Linux (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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The GNU project was started in 1983 and in 2025 you can finally use a pure GNU operating system. Not that you'd want to but that is some serious perseverance.

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[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Now? Hurd was there since forever. Plus there was (or is, not interested, so never actually checked) a variant with the BSD kernel.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was definitively a thing.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

From the article:

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD used the Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel, although sadly, due to lack of manpower the project ended in 2023. There was a similar effort using the kernel from the slightly older BSD, Debian GNU/NetBSD. Multiple others have been suggested, including ports to the kernels of OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, IBM's OS/2 kernel and others.

this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026

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