GNU/kFreeBSD -vs- FreeBSD with Linux_base-debain?

Robert Millan rmh@debian.org
Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:33:04 +0200


On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:14:31PM -0400, todd wrote:
> I'm really intrigued by Glibc-based Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
> 
> I suspect this may be similar to using the FreeBSD base system with the 
> Debian base set for the Linux mode package linux_base-debian?

Somewhat, except you don't need to emulate Linux to get the Debian GNU
userland.  You can even use GNU/kFreeBSD in a chroot.

Btw, I wonder if something like kfreebsd_base-debian would be welcome in
the ports collection.

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