From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 18:56:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D03F37BB72 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: from noel.cs.rice.edu (noel.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.136]) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA24734 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:56:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Received: (from aron@localhost) by noel.cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA07049 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:56:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200005240156.UAA07049@noel.cs.rice.edu> Subject: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:56:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I apologize beforehand if this topic has already been discussed at length here or elsewhere. More and more commerical sites are providing software packages that contain binaries for Linux. While FreeBSD does provide Linux emulation, this is often flaky and breaks down more often than not for commercial software. On the other hand, the FreeBSD kernel is superior than that of Linux. Since FreeBSD and Linux have so much in common wrt to the user interface to the kernel, wouldn't it be so much better if both had the SAME interface such that the Linux kernel could just be replaced by the FreeBSD kernel. That way, one would be able to take advantage of both the increasing development of software for Linux, as well as the strengths of the FreeBSD kernel. It would give FreeBSD much greater visibility. Can someone comment on how difficult achieving the above would be ? - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message