From: Stephan Lichtenauer <lichtena@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd with microkernel?? Message-ID: <372EC5AA.1AA5952C@in.tum.de>
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just being cursious but... ...is it imaginable that a future FreeBSD could be microkernel-based (eg look at Flux/OSKit) and that it could allow some other OS-services running at the same time (remember IBMs "personality" concept that was planned for WorkplaceOS where OS/2, NT, AIX etc. should be integrated seamlessly with running on a new kernel architecture?) Wouldn't (assuming someone(s) would take a microkernel with a BSD-compatible license and write a FreeBSD "personality" on top of it) that improve portability and perhaps compatibility to additional operating systems if there are people that are interested in writing other "personalities", being not only emulations that have to struggle with an underlying OS that was not intended to serve for that function (eg. a "native" Win32-environment and not "only" Win32-exes that have to be started with a command "wine" and that are running on a X-desktop, more seamless like WinOS/2)?? I was just thinking about enhancing FreeBSDs capabilities and perhaps reputation that way because so it could have at least two (new) great advantages over Linux (improved portability and "compatibility", also perhaps through a Linux-personality replacing the Linux-emulation that again has to run on top of FreeBSD) and of course over all the other Un*x and PC-OS. I am really impressed by the knowledge, organisation and love that is put into FreeBSD so I just thought... Stephan Lichtenauer ps pls CC to me if possible... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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