From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 19:41: 6 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 7DEFA37B6AD for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:41:03 -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 VAA01014; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:41:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Received: (from aron@localhost) by noel.cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA08232; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:41:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200005240241.VAA08232@noel.cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel To: protozoa@locutus.ghs.ssd.k12.wa.us (Dan Feldman) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:41:01 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dan Feldman" at May 23, 2000 07:27:30 PM 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 > > First of all, FreeBSD's kernel can use both the Linux and FreeBSD > interfaces at once. Although it might be possible to remove the FreeBSD > interfaces, then all you have are the Linux ones - it sounds like a loss > in functionality to me. Second, the Linux emulator is actually extremely > good - even very complex threaded programs work perfectly. Problems do > exist, but these are mostly in the /dev tree and drivers, not in the call > interface. Sound, video framebuffers, and SVGAlib all work, but only > barely. Thus I think the only advantage would be that FreeBSD userspace > apps could use glibc, which is nice, but would break the copyrights on > both trees :). > Also, package installs are rather troublesome (unless you install from FreeBSD ports). By default any libraries tend to be installed in /usr/lib whereas they should go in /compat/linux/usr/lib and so on. Its hard to get Linux binary packages from the Internet to install easily on FreeBSD. > If you're really interested in this kind of OS hybridism, why not use the > GNU/FreeBSD system put out by Debian a while back? > Yes, that'll be perfect for me (and for so many other users wanting to use FreeBSD on their desktop). I looked at Debian's webpages - couldn't find the GNU/FreeBSD system. However, I'll take a closer look. Thanks, - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message