From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 19:45:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE5337BB3F; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA15682; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:45:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mohit Aron Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <200005240156.UAA07049@noel.cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote: > 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. We already have a pretty complete implementation of the Linux kernel ABI - most of the problems with running Linux binaries on FreeBSD comes from userland stuff: missing libraries, etc. It's not "Linux emulation" - see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x18949.html I'm not sure what you're really looking for beyond what already exists. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message