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Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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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.


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