he decided to wait for the 7.x stable kernel- 2.6 support in that. he is wishy-washy like that. my friend is me. Jima wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Mike Miller wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that every ubuntu program would have to be compiled from >> source with the Free BSD kernel. You'd want to start by getting GCC and >> compiler tools working. > This is going off some ~5-year-old memories, but ISTR that FreeBSD has a > Linux binary compatability mode/module/something that enables it to run > apps built for Linux. (I once played with a Linux chroot jail on a > FreeBSD box. It worked okay.) So the apps might be fine. >> It sounds like way more trouble than it would be worth. Tell him you'll >> do it for $10,000, but it might take two months! > I might give it a shot for $10,000. ;-) > Jima > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs