Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:15:33 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) Message-ID: <200008260415.VAA28112@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2000 06:02:15 %2B0200." <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net>
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>[please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > >are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near >or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) >some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. No, that is not going to happen. >The reason I'm asking this is to investigate further, wether the Hurd >can be dropped into a FreeBSD system as an alternative to the current >FreeBSD kernel. Using a non-FreeBSD kernel with GNU libc would pretty much make it not FreeBSD anymore. FreeBSD is what it is; if you don't like most of it, then may I suggest that you use one of the alternatives that better suits your needs. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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