Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:27:15PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you can install the gentoo linux-dist in parallel to the default
> linux-base. Gentoo will be in /usr/local, not in /compat/linux. As
> such you have to manually start programs there via chroot. This means
> you do not have access to you FreeBSD files like normally, except you
> do null-mounts into the gentoo area. It also means your experience
> will not be as "integrated" as with the defaut linux-base (the
> linux-base port does some effort to integrate FreeBSD config files and
> installed resources like fonts).
> 
> Just switching between them, like changing a symlink, is theoretically
> possible, but the gentoo linux-dist port is not designed for this kind
> of integration. It's a linux-"dist" port, not a linux-"base" port.

What is it good for, then?
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