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Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there...
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:02:11 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Warner Losh who wrote:
> 
> A while back someone asked me if they could do the following sick
> thing:
> 
> Compile FreeBSD kernel, put it on a linux box, run lilo pointed at
> this kernel, and reboot and have their "Linux" box suddenly be a
> "FreeBSD" box running all their Linux stuff.
> 
> Is that now possible?  Or are there too many kernel things that would
> preclude this (eg no ps, netstat, etc)?

Auch, havn't thought of that one :)
This looks like a "hostile takeover" of some kind, could be fun if
it worked:

"Tired of that linux system ?? well, just copy our kernel ontop
of the old one..."

I think however that there are toomany hidden obstacles before
this will work, but it could be fun if it worked...

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.