Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231958370.16972-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200005240251.VAA08495@noel.cs.rice.edu>
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote:
> Yes, which is why I'd rather use GNU utilities running on FreeBSD than spend
> hours figuring out how to make a Linux binary work. As someone pointed out,
> Debian is making some effort in this direction. I'll check that out.
Oh I see, you're looking for a replacement FreeBSD userland, not a
retargetted FreeBSD kernel.
It's been a while since I've done it, but if you just install e.g. a
Debian snapshot and chroot to it then just about everything should work.
Some of the "system administration" syscalls may not work (have not been
implemented), but once someone identifies what they are they could be
in theory be implemented without too much trouble.
This is different to the Debian/FreeBSD effort, which was aiming to get
source-code compilation of Linux userland under FreeBSD and is therefore
harder (I suspect that project has kind of died).
Kris
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