Hi Julien!

I've never touched other unix system than Linux before. What could be a 
reason to use a FreeBsd instead of the Linux kernel?

regards
klaus

Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just added GNU/kFreeBSD support to the build system a few hours
> ago.
> 
> For those of you who might not know what this beast is, it's fairly
> simple: it's a system running the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland,
> including (and most importantly) the GNU libc. [1]
> 
> So, simply put, this system shares the generic userland properties of
> any glibc-based system and the kernel properties of FreeBSD.
> 
> I've grepped through the tree for __OS_freebsd and __OS_linux and it
> doesn't look like I have to add anything for __OS_gnu_kfreebsd. It
> could be used in io_wait.c for kqueue, but GNU/kFreeBSD can't use a
> FreeBSD old enough that it wouldn't support kqueue, so that's not
> really warranted either.
> 
> The Debian packages for OpenSER build fine on GNU/kFreeBSD with the
> current trunk.
> 
> JB.
> 
> [1] <http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/>
> 

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