From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:14: 5 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 7830F37BA19; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:14:03 -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 UAA18601; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:14:03 -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: <200005240251.VAA08495@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: > 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 ---- 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