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From: Jerry L Kreps
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
Stefan Troeger wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 13:52 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I wonder - can FreeBSD live in a logical partition and be loaded by
Lilo or by
other boot managers? That would make it easier to play with since it could live in parallel with Linux.
Yes and yes.
And what filesystems if any can FreeBSD share with Linux?
Linux can read FreeBSDs UFS (write support is experimental). I don't know if FreeBSD can handle ext2 but like Linux it should read and write FAT.
FAT may be the one format everyone can read and write, but the 8.3 case-insensitive filename format can be pretty limiting sometimes.
I wonder if any of the other less-common filesystems like VFAT, UMSDOS, and maybe System V, which Linux can handle, are available under FreeBSD?
Paul Abrahams
mmmm.... I got to wondering... Does FreeBSD support gcc and/or the ELF format? I.E., can Linux binaries be run on it. Does it use libc6 and other common Linux libraries? JLK
Yes, FreeBSD does use ELF format binaries, it comes with gcc and many other programs (for lack of a better word) that you are accustomed to using with linux. I am not sure what libs it uses but is extremely compatible with linux. FreeBSD reads nfs, ufs, umsdos, and a couple others I can't remember off hand. The one major difference is that the kernel does not use modules. Everything has to be compiled in, but it is a very simple procedure. That is the only experience that I have with kernel compilation. In many ways freebsd is almost like another linux distro. It just doesn't have as big of a user base.
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