Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:59:50 -0600 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed? Message-ID: <CAGsORuAcoKGaRKg7C6i9nrTWbXHUj4Qf1gT-qx_5%2BpUL3oV8YQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111206153259.501d81bb@gumby.homeunix.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> <20111206153259.501d81bb@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Well, I'm wrong. I read "in effect" as "in fact"... -- Zhihao Yuan On Dec 6, 2011 9:33 AM, "RW" <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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