From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 30 18:11:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-131.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2194037B9C0 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48AD466BDC; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:10:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:10:47 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making the linux world on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020130181047.A86952@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020130133146.A61311@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020130133146.A61311@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:31:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:31:47PM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > How good is FreeBSD's linuxulator? This is how good it is. > > [...] You can also run an entire linux distribution within FreeBSD except for some system-level commands which deal with devices and expect certain ioctls to be supported. You could happily stick a Debian or Redhat installation inside a jail on a FreeBSD host system, for example. At some point I'm going to play with something like this as a way of migrating our desktop systems at uni away from redhat and onto FreeBSD without the users noticing too much :) Kris --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8WKenWry0BWjoQKURAt3TAJ9IQp24JxFSIGBR9H8o8xkDSpTMVgCgiREl iq+clUDyUdDVlzJ1TOITZH8= =tTxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message