From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 19:51:15 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 8EEDE37BB57; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:51:12 -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 VAA02546; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:51:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Received: (from aron@localhost) by noel.cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA08495; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:51:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200005240251.VAA08495@noel.cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel To: kris@freebsd.org (Kris Kennaway) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:51:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Kris Kennaway" at May 23, 2000 07:45:07 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 > > We already have a pretty complete implementation of the Linux kernel ABI - > most of the problems with running Linux binaries on FreeBSD comes from > userland stuff: missing libraries, etc. It's not "Linux emulation" - see > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x18949.html > Yes, which is why I'd rather use GNU utilities running on FreeBSD than spend hours figuring out how to make a Linux binary work. As someone pointed out, Debian is making some effort in this direction. I'll check that out. - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message