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Date:      Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:32:59 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?
Message-ID:  <20111206153259.501d81bb@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGsORuDD-bvHn56yjDrGjP501uLG_Sek9UqXzJHDfTX5jcZGgQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <eer12xrotnbwco8ti8cfbwy3.1323091614336@email.android.com> <20111206095325.66342106566C@hub.freebsd.org> <CAGsORuAa2-b2xrwttEfwei9VJB4GonKM_Evn4RxopGO=i%2BiryA@mail.gmail.com> <20111206122146.3002664c@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAGsORuDWFDvrcbjN0wREsb%2B%2BmRMZKbcjgCGGDgT2Tr8svMD9Wg@mail.gmail.com> <20111206134554.44298ce7@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAGsORuDD-bvHn56yjDrGjP501uLG_Sek9UqXzJHDfTX5jcZGgQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:04:59 -0600
Zhihao Yuan wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > But what I was getting at was the statement "linuxulator is a Linux
> > kernel running as a FreeBSD kernel module" which I'm guessing now
> > you didn't mean literally.
> 
> FreeBSD handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-advanced.html
> 
> "In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel; ..."

Clearly the author of that article doesn't agree with you or he
wouldn't have written "In effect". If your statement had been:
"linuxulator is effectively a Linux kernel running as a FreeBSD
kernel", then it wouldn't have been plain wrong.

> So, if you define a Linux kernel as "every thing written by Linus and
> his followers", then I'm wrong; but if you agree that "Android is not
> GNU but it does run a Linux kernel", then I'm probably right.

Android is based on fork of Linux, it contains real Linux code. All you
could argue from that is that the linuxulator  could be called Linux if
it were based on Linux code.




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