Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:57:32 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: malaizhichun@tom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does FreeBSD not use the Linux kernel? Message-ID: <20200617205732.58394b1570280c7959a01cd4@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3a48ab1ab198c330400be3e942f921f2cd3c3e11.camel@tom.com> References: <3a48ab1ab198c330400be3e942f921f2cd3c3e11.camel@tom.com>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:33:25 +0800 kindu smith <malaizhichun@tom.com> wrote: > Why does FreeBSD not use the Linux kernel? The most fundamental reason that FreeBSD does not use *any* code from the Linux kernel is the GPL which is fundamentally incompatible with the BSD license. There was MirosBSD which was BSD userland running on a Linux kernel but the project has been abandoned for some years. Personally I think it is a very good thing that there are several essentially independent code bases that implement OSs that I'm happy to consider unix. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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