On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Jima wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Mike Miller wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This is going off some ~5-year-old memories, but ISTR that FreeBSD has a 
> Linux binary compatability mode/module/something that enables it to run 
> apps built for Linux.  (I once played with a Linux chroot jail on a 
> FreeBSD box. It worked okay.)  So the apps might be fine.

Taking your lead, I found this:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/17/linuxapps.html

Mike