From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 01:42:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2DD16A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:42:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4AF43D5D for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:42:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD9542715.dip.t-dialin.net [217.84.39.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A47F2D6D; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:37:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41BBA1FE.2040009@mukappabeta.de> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:42:22 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Loren M. Lang" References: <20041210082138.GF32126@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20041210082138.GF32126@alzatex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: Linux kernel on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:42:17 -0000 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. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de