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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2000 23:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
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.GSO.4.21.0005232330540.4471-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200005240230.VAA07954@noel.cs.rice.edu>

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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote:

> And not without reason. Their proposal aimed to replace FSF utilities with
> BSD equivalents - I don't think they are considering the kernel as a utility.
> I don't really any benefit from this.
> 
> The binaries being distributed for Linux make use of Linux utilities (whether
> or not they are from FSF) and it makes little sense to replace them. Replacing
> the kernel though - that's another matter.

Actually, I went backwards.  My mistake.

Not that getting rid of GNU tools is an all bad idea... :)

Jamie



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