From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 0: 5:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8AD37B52E for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA24922; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "Preston S. Wiley" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mohit Aron , Dan Feldman , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 23:52:00 PDT." Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:07:06 -0700 Message-ID: <24919.959152026@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1. You can run /compat/linux/bin/bash and then you in a sort of > Linux/FreeBSD directory mix. The root directory looks just like your > FreeBSD root, but changing to a directory that is in /compat/linux, like > /bin, will put in the linux tree of this directory, but changing to a > directory that doesn't exist, like /home, will keep you in the FreeBSD Well, what do you know - you're right! :) I learn something new every day. > I've found the Linux emulation on FreeBSD to be one of the best, most > integrated emulation I've ever seen of anything. I've messed around with > it quite a bit and discovered quite a few nifty tricks you can do. I've > never actually tried it, but I think you could probably compile Linux > binaries under FreeBSD by installing the Linux version of gcc and using > it. There used to be a linux-devel port which did exactly this. Don't know what became of it, however.. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message