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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:48:42 +1200
From:      Jamie Walker <jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        Julian Bolivar <jbolivar@cantv.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010327164841.F19938@auckland.ac.nz>
In-Reply-To: <002501c0b678$cfb74880$931576d8@inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:45:55PM -0600
References:  <MABBJPGGNGLFFHNHNAPFIEJDCAAA.jbolivar@cantv.net> <3AC01725.69062840@tpgi.com.au> <002501c0b678$cfb74880$931576d8@inethouston.net>

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:45:55PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:

> no mosix on there, this should probably be more of a question for
> ports@freebsd.org but what operating system does it run on?  If its linux,
> freebsd has a good linux emulator.

MOSIX is a fairly major kernel patch. Linux emulation wouldn't cut it; the whole 
codebase would need to be ported to the FreeBSD kernel and I suspect that wouldn't be 
a trivial task.

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