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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.localnet.com!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!info.ucla.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 11 May 1996 19:30:38 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4n2psu$fjp@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <4n1t38$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <4n1t38$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >You have to get the blessing of Your God for each part that should go >into the kernel. Actually, in Linux, there is a hierarchy of people responsible for kernel code maintance, not just one person. Check out /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS for the proper person to contact regarding your kernel feature. Of course, this only applies to kernel code. Under Linux, anyone can submit user level code, and have it incorporated into a Linux distribution. The kernel is just a small (but important!) part of the entire Linux project. >> There has >> been support for the BSD UFS to be added, but until someone finds a need >> to run *BSD binaries, it's not likely to happen. > >The file system is transparent for the applications, so what the heck >are you arguing here??? You can run Linux binaries on FreeBSD with >either ext2fs or ufs, what's the concern of the application with it? I'm sorry you didn't understand what I was trying to say. Linux people have found it useful to have the BSD UFS filesystem usable under Linux. Therefore, they incorporated the code. On the other hand, no one in the Linux community has found it useful to be able to run *BSD binaries, so support hasn't been added. If someone finds running *BSD binaries useful, then someone will work on the support. There wasn't meant to be any relation between the BSD UFS filesystem and the need to run *BSD binaries. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu