Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?

Zhihao Yuan lichray at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 17:59:52 UTC 2011


Well, I'm wrong. I read "in effect" as "in fact"...

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Zhihao Yuan
On Dec 6, 2011 9:33 AM, "RW" <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:04:59 -0600
> Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > But what I was getting at was the statement "linuxulator is a Linux
> > > kernel running as a FreeBSD kernel module" which I'm guessing now
> > > you didn't mean literally.
> >
> > FreeBSD handbook:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-advanced.html
> >
> > "In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel; ..."
>
> Clearly the author of that article doesn't agree with you or he
> wouldn't have written "In effect". If your statement had been:
> "linuxulator is effectively a Linux kernel running as a FreeBSD
> kernel", then it wouldn't have been plain wrong.
>
> > So, if you define a Linux kernel as "every thing written by Linus and
> > his followers", then I'm wrong; but if you agree that "Android is not
> > GNU but it does run a Linux kernel", then I'm probably right.
>
> Android is based on fork of Linux, it contains real Linux code. All you
> could argue from that is that the linuxulator  could be called Linux if
> it were based on Linux code.
>
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