If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux?

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sun Mar 16 19:09:25 UTC 2014


On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 02:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC)
> > "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>         
> > > There are also builds of a Linux userland on FreeBSD kernel.
> 
> >         That is quite easily achieved, many linux distros will install
> > and run quite happily in a FreeBSD jail. I have a Centos install
> > running in one in order to run a CUPS printer driver that is only
> > available as a Linux binary.
>         
> --
> > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
> 
> There was discussion a few months ago about FreeBSD's linuxulator being
> very limited in function and unable to cope with Linux distributions
> built with recent Linux kernels.  Does a FreeBSD jail work better than a
> chroot?  Could I build packages for Linux in a FreeBSD jail?

	I don't think there'll be any difference between support in a jail
to a chroot. I've not had any trouble with y Centos jail - OTOH it is just
running as a CUPS server, it wouldn't surprise me if running modern linux
GUIs failed horribly.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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