Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft
by cyphar on Sunday April 03, 2016 @06:30AM
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> >Frankenstein OS (Linux + Windows) is going to break every dev tool chain you can think of. I don't see how anyone in their right mind would think Frankenstein OS is a good dev platform.
> It's a binary-identical linux userspace, and it (appears as if it) has the same linux kernel.
I don't think so (GPL is the main reason why I doubt it because everyone would consider that to be a derivative work of Linux). It looks like they're doing something FreeBSD has had for 10+ years and SmartOS has had for 5+ years. You emulate the syscalls. It's a very simple idea and devilishly hard to get right.
> It's a binary-identical linux userspace, and it (appears as if it) has the same linux kernel.
I don't think so (GPL is the main reason why I doubt it because everyone would consider that to be a derivative work of Linux). It looks like they're doing something FreeBSD has had for 10+ years and SmartOS has had for 5+ years. You emulate the syscalls. It's a very simple idea and devilishly hard to get right.