RE: FW: testing, testing
Hamish wrote:
>
> As well as the kernel there's a bunch of kernel-specific
> utilities I expect,
> like most of /sbin. Anything which sets things up inside the kernel,
> like networking (ifconfig, route, etc), file systems (mount,
> fsck), etc.
>
> This seems like a reasonable idea for a project and shouldn't
> be too much work (compared to a whole port).
>
I agree. This seems like a good stepping off point at any rate.
The 3 or 4 of us on this list so far would be hard-pressed to get
even this much done in a short period of time ;-)
>
> That's true, they would. An idea I have been pushing a bit is
> to have dpkg running on FreeBSD to manage /compat/linux (or perhaps
> /compat/debian).
> Perhaps standard linux-i386 packages could be installed onto
> the system (using dpkg/dselect). It would only be necessary to port and
> hack dpkg to do this.
>
I like this idea, too. It gives the BSD user a clean way of using many
Linux tools without messing up their standard distribution.
>
> Most of this effort is based on the premise that the FreeBSD kernel
> is better than the Linux kernel. Unfortunately it's hard to comment on
> that without causing a flamewar :-)
>
I'm not sure that's entirely true. I think that the BSD probably has
some strengths that would be of use to some people who are very happy
with the Debian distribution, and might like a BSD kernel for its
stability/networking strengths, while wanting the Linux user tools.
-Brent
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