From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:32:33 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 AB40D37BBDE for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:32:19 -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 XAA21722; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:32:12 -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 XAA04517; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04513; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:32:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:32:11 -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: <200005240230.VAA07954@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: > 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. Actually, I went backwards. My mistake. Not that getting rid of GNU tools is an all bad idea... :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message