Linux kernel on FreeBSD

[Matthias Buelow]

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.

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