FreeBSD compatibility layer on Linux

garage_greg

I am aware of Linux mode on FreeBSD , where Linux binaries can seamlessly be executed in FreeBSD. From the FreeBSD handbook : In effect, there is a Linux kernel in the FreeBSD kernel. The various underlying functions that implement all of the services provided by the kernel are identical to both the FreeBSD system call table entries, and the Linux system call table entries: file system operations, virtual memory operations, signal delivery, and...

Originally asked by William Breathitt Gray on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

From http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ : Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set. I am not familiar with it, nor have I tried it, but there is much more information on this project on the various wiki pages: http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_FAQ

Full answer by Coroos: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/608540 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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