From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:16: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9990337BB69 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01030; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:20:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:20:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200005240320.WAA01030@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: aron@cs.rice.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: > >> >> 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 > >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. Also note that I just added ext2fs support to our bootloader, so with a little more effort, you might be able to drop a fbsd kernel into an existing Linux system and have it boot. There will the enevitable bunch of issues to iron out as well, so it's probably not as simple as it sounds. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message