What are the ultimate features of BSD that Ubuntu needs?

[Sunnz]

Well there's plenty of proprietary software on Linux, because core libraries tend to be licensed under the LGPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html, not the GPL.

[Rounin]

At any rate, it seems like it's not so much of an issue anymore, as it was just announced that Linux is to have a stable API for userspace drivers. I suppose that settles it then; hopefully proprietary drivers can now coexist with Linux without posing a security risk to the rest of the system or needing a license change. Let's hope certain vendors make use of it!

http://developers.slashdot.org/devel.../0442236.shtml
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/0...ce-driver-api/

[howdy1]

*BSD's has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux should have been.

nuff said.

[kosmic]

Yap, I love BSD...just wish ubuntu had "chflags"...and "jails" man i love Jails, Ubuntu should use jails instead of chroot, and of course it should also use "IPFW" or "PF" instead of "IPTABLES", it is so simple and powerful to configure a firewall with "PF" or "IPFW" it's miles away from "IPTABLES".

Most of the time I only need 2 rules in "IPFW/PF" to block something, and to block the same thing with "IPTABLES I need 4 rules

[AnRa]

I do actually wish for an Ubuntu flavour of BSD, with the same ease of installation and use, but without the license problems that come with using proprietary software and binary drivers.

You may try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD.