Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:55:09 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDLinux OS Message-ID: <ef10de9a0508201755344aae4c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1515C667-4333-4147-BA3E-E04C2ED8382A@HiWAAY.net> References: <ef10de9a0508200102148196e0@mail.gmail.com> <4306EAB7.4090001@skyforge.net> <ef10de9a05082010564e9eed5e@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.NEB.4.62.0508201159300.639@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <ef10de9a050820141871305e20@mail.gmail.com> <20050820212745.GA2998@night.db.net> <ef10de9a0508201543e4905f7@mail.gmail.com> <1515C667-4333-4147-BA3E-E04C2ED8382A@HiWAAY.net>
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On 8/20/05, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > While we're at it in addition to FreeBSD runtime stuff why don't we > also port the FreeBSD kernel to Linux? >=20 > With a FreeBSD kernel on Linux wouldn't it be much easier to port the > FreeBSD runtime stuff? :-) We do sorta have one, it's in the kernel: options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THI= S!] options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 >=20 > Could be as simple as removing Beastie and replacing him with Tux. Oh god no! Never, though Tux is better then that dam GNU cow. I was thinking more along the lines of stealing Glenda, the Plan 9 bunny (-: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/glenda.html > We'll just change our name to Linux. I don't like it at all. Then > again I don't suffer from Linux-envy but thought it was time to knock > some back to reality. Who's Reality? And It's not really a Linux envy thing (I'd be using a Linux distro then and we'd never had this chat) but an appreciation of what the Linux kernel could do (for BSD).
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