From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 19:30:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA0137B96B for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: from noel.cs.rice.edu (noel.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.136]) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA29521; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:30:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Received: (from aron@localhost) by noel.cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA07954; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:30:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200005240230.VAA07954@noel.cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel To: howardjp@glue.umd.edu (James Howard) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:30:06 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "James Howard" at May 23, 2000 10:24:55 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > That sounds a lot like the DaemonLinux project: > > http://synack.net/daemonlinux/ > > Except it appears to have died stillborn. > And not without reason. Their proposal aimed to replace FSF utilities with BSD equivalents - I don't think they are considering the kernel as a utility. I don't really any benefit from this. The binaries being distributed for Linux make use of Linux utilities (whether or not they are from FSF) and it makes little sense to replace them. Replacing the kernel though - that's another matter. - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message