Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:24:55 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> To: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005232224180.432-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200005240156.UAA07049@noel.cs.rice.edu>
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote: > Hi, > I apologize beforehand if this topic has already been discussed at > length here or elsewhere. > > More and more commerical sites are providing software packages that contain > binaries for Linux. While FreeBSD does provide Linux emulation, this is often > flaky and breaks down more often than not for commercial software. On the other > hand, the FreeBSD kernel is superior than that of Linux. > > Since FreeBSD and Linux have so much in common wrt to the user interface > to the kernel, wouldn't it be so much better if both had the SAME interface > such that the Linux kernel could just be replaced by the FreeBSD kernel. > That way, one would be able to take advantage of both the increasing > development of software for Linux, as well as the strengths of the FreeBSD > kernel. It would give FreeBSD much greater visibility. > > Can someone comment on how difficult achieving the above would be ? That sounds a lot like the DaemonLinux project: http://synack.net/daemonlinux/ Except it appears to have died stillborn. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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