Well, I'm wrong. I read "in effect" as "in fact"... -- Zhihao Yuan On Dec 6, 2011 9:33 AM, "RW" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:04:59 -0600 > Zhihao Yuan wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, RW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But what I was getting at was the statement "linuxulator is a Linux > > > kernel running as a FreeBSD kernel module" which I'm guessing now > > > you didn't mean literally. > > > > FreeBSD handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-advanced.html > > > > "In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel; ..." > > Clearly the author of that article doesn't agree with you or he > wouldn't have written "In effect". If your statement had been: > "linuxulator is effectively a Linux kernel running as a FreeBSD > kernel", then it wouldn't have been plain wrong. > > > So, if you define a Linux kernel as "every thing written by Linus and > > his followers", then I'm wrong; but if you agree that "Android is not > > GNU but it does run a Linux kernel", then I'm probably right. > > Android is based on fork of Linux, it contains real Linux code. All you > could argue from that is that the linuxulator could be called Linux if > it were based on Linux code. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
