Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:52:13 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200602081852.SAA19650@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:54:05 %2B0100." <20060208065405.GA11496@epia2.farid-hajji.net>
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> That's exactly what I'm doing right now. For example when I need > to use my Pinnacle DC10+ (Zoran) card, I simply reboot into Gentoo, > do the capture, and then reboot into FreeBSD to run the rest of > mjpegtools. Same for MIDI recording etc... or other stuff that's > currently unavailable within FreeBSD. > > The problem with this is that there are two systems to care for: > my primary FreeBSD environment, and a minimal Gentoo environment > just for a few programs. There is another problem with dual-booting. FreeBSD isn't available when Linux is running, and visa-versa. If you have jobs that need to run at specific times and the machine is running the wrong OS at that time, you lose. I suspect that a lot of people only need a driver or two from Linux. Userland stuff tends to be fairly portable between BSD and Linux.
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