From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 10:37:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA06467 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:37:29 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06457 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:37:22 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA03945; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:31:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511101831.LAA03945@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD To: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:31:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9511101352.AA07120.gonzo@vmicls.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Nov 10, 95 08:52:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 945 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Wouldn't it be just as easy to create a small 60 or so meg partition > > > and just install the development tools. > > > > > you could chroot to a linux partition and run an 'all linux' > > environment while running FreeBSD :) > > > > Not a complaint here, BUT, why would someone want to > compile and run all the LINUX binaries while running FreeBSD ??? > > Seems to me, if you want to run Linux, then run it. Don't emulate it > under FreeBSD. Unless of course, FreeBSD can emulate it faster/better > than Linux can run it(the programs I mean). Actually, with a unified VM/Cache underlying the system call implementation, this is a very real possibility. I'd like to see some benchmarks run Native under Linux and under ABI compatability using a BSD kernel on (hopefulle) a root ext2fs. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.