Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:42:22 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD Message-ID: <41BBA1FE.2040009@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20041210082138.GF32126@alzatex.com> References: <20041210082138.GF32126@alzatex.com>
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Loren M. Lang wrote:
> want. Now this does give me an idea, what about making Linux/FreeBSD,
One problem might be that the BSD userland was written explicitly to
work on BSD, that is, under the BSD kernel, and hence is inherently less
portable than the part of the Linux userland that is the Gnu tools,
which are rather portable and can be built on many systems. Therefore
it is a probably a lot easier to get the Gnu userland running under a
BSD kernel (the early Gnu tools were written for a "BSD-like" operating
system) than the converse situation of running the rather specialized
BSD userland on top of a Linux kernel. It is for sure possible but of
rather questionable merit and most likely a lot more work than you'd
want to invest.
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Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de
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