From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 21:45:45 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 9723E37BBB9; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:45:43 -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 VAA29203; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:45:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mohit Aron Cc: Dan Feldman , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <200005240348.WAA09825@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: > I believe even to make netscape plugins (for Linux) work, you need to > use the linux version of netscape - not the FreeBSD one (at least this > used to be true some time back). All these nifty things really scare > any new users away from FreeBSD. You can't mix and match Linux syscalls and FreeBSD syscalls in the same program - the kernel has no way to know how it should interpret them. > But seriously, I think the problem can be fixed with a more transparent > interface for Linux programs. Rather than requiring Linux libraries to be put > in /compat/linux, it would be much easier if everything could be put in > /usr/lib. Which probably means having the SAME interface as Linux. No thanks. Firstly there's the fact that many files exist in both Linux and FreeBSD versions, but don't work the same (e.g. GNU versions of system utilities), and secondly there's the fact that I don't want my system being spammed by a zillion linux files amongst my "native" ones with no way to tell which is which. Then there's the issue of shared libraries, which combines with problem #2 and leads to the problem in my first paragraph mentioned above. 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