On Sunday 16 December 2007 03:01:05 am Mike Miller wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Anna Edwards wrote: > > a friend of mine gave me the oddest task. he likes both ubuntu and free > > bsd kernal. he asked me to put the freebsd 6.3 kernel in his ubuntu 7.10 > > desktop. how would i do this? > > I'm pretty sure that every ubuntu program would have to be compiled from > source with the Free BSD kernel. You'd want to start by getting GCC and > compiler tools working. > > What can he do with the Free BSD kernel that he can't do with the Linux > kernel? > > It sounds like way more trouble than it would be worth. Tell him you'll > do it for $10,000, but it might take two months! > > Mike Probably nothing, and loses all the advantages of running FreeBSD in the first place....namely an OS that's coherently designed and not just some random collection of bits tossed in a sack together. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071216/1e0f572d/attachment.pgp