Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Brian Sobolak
cpghost wrote: Hello, since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. This would be somewhat the reverse of

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Dieter
since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. I'd prefer to have a way to use a Linux device driver with a BSD

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Dieter
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. For example when I need to use my Pinnacle DC10+ (Zoran) card, I simply reboot into Gentoo, do the capture, and then reboot into FreeBSD to run the rest of mjpegtools. Same for MIDI recording etc... or other stuff that's currently unavailable within

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-08 10:29, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. I'd prefer to have a way to

[WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
Hello, since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kernel/linux.ko, some kind of

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Dieter
since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. I'd prefer to have a way to use a Linux device driver with a BSD kernel.

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: Hello, since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. This would be

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 07/02/06 cpghost said: Hello, since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. Then run Gentoo Linux. It's the closest

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
Hello. On 07/02/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:15:40AM +0100, Urs Schroffenegger wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: Hello, since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:44:46PM -0200, Gustavo De Nardin wrote: Hello. On 07/02/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional*

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:53:57PM +, Dieter wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. I'd prefer to have a

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:59:27PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 07/02/06 cpghost said: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of