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> The linux-base port is supposed to provide good integration into FreeBSD. Ideally the integration is seamless.
  
> The linux-dist ports provide a complete linux environment. You chroot into it and you have a complete linux system. You can compile linux binaries inside the
> +linux-dist. You can not do this with the linux-base.
  
> Bye,
> Alexander.

So I guess that's the fundamental difference between linux-base installed to /compat/linux, and linux-dist?

So when I build my Linux installation, then I suppose I can mount that partition and chroot into it?

Even as nonroot?  Even run X Window applications?

I think on some platforms, chroot is root-only, but running

ls -l /usr/sbin/chroot in FreeBSD 9.0-RC2

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7736 Nov 22 11:08 /usr/sbin/chroot

Tom