From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 25 21:17:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4151637B422 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7Q4HTt10671; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:17:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Farid Hajji Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) Message-ID: <20000825211728.G1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net>; from farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 06:02:15AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Farid Hajji [000825 21:03] wrote: > Hello, > > [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. hahahaha no. > 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. I'm going to have to cut you short here, what's them point of this? I read the rest of your message and basically what you seem to want to do is port the FreeBSD userland to Hurd, that's what you need to do. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message