From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 19:25: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CB137BE14 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20513; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:24:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA00895; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:24:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00891; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:24:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:24:55 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Mohit Aron Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <200005240156.UAA07049@noel.cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote: > Hi, > I apologize beforehand if this topic has already been discussed at > length here or elsewhere. > > More and more commerical sites are providing software packages that contain > binaries for Linux. While FreeBSD does provide Linux emulation, this is often > flaky and breaks down more often than not for commercial software. On the other > hand, the FreeBSD kernel is superior than that of Linux. > > Since FreeBSD and Linux have so much in common wrt to the user interface > to the kernel, wouldn't it be so much better if both had the SAME interface > such that the Linux kernel could just be replaced by the FreeBSD kernel. > That way, one would be able to take advantage of both the increasing > development of software for Linux, as well as the strengths of the FreeBSD > kernel. It would give FreeBSD much greater visibility. > > Can someone comment on how difficult achieving the above would be ? That sounds a lot like the DaemonLinux project: http://synack.net/daemonlinux/ Except it appears to have died stillborn. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message