From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 26 20:49: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (mailhost.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D1CF37B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walker@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz) Received: from gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (IDENT:postfix@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.216.23]) by mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2/8.9.2-ua) with ESMTP id QAA06921; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:48:42 +1200 (NZST) Received: by gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 44A8B3EF0; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:48:42 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:48:42 +1200 From: Jamie Walker To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: Julian Bolivar , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010327164841.F19938@auckland.ac.nz> References: <3AC01725.69062840@tpgi.com.au> <002501c0b678$cfb74880$931576d8@inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <002501c0b678$cfb74880$931576d8@inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:45:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:45:55PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > no mosix on there, this should probably be more of a question for > ports@freebsd.org but what operating system does it run on? If its linux, > freebsd has a good linux emulator. MOSIX is a fairly major kernel patch. Linux emulation wouldn't cut it; the whole codebase would need to be ported to the FreeBSD kernel and I suspect that wouldn't be a trivial task. -- Fone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.315, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz Home: jamiew@clear.net.nz ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message