from CoLinux to MoreLinux :D

[Mario Marietto]

Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ended in July 2023 because no one was
interested anymore to develop it.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:06 AM Richard <richard_siegfried at systemli.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 03.12.23 19:58, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > maybe someone of you know the old project called "coLinux" :
> >
> >
> >     Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method
> >     for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More
> >     generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the
> >     Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another
> >     operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to
> >     freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, without using a
> >     commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which
> >     is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC
> >     virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to
> >     run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows.
> >
> >
> > CoLinux is very old and not maintained for a lot of time and I'm not
> > interested in resurrecting it (and I don't have the competences to do
> > it),BUT I'm interested to gather some information about a similar
> > project that I have in mind. What about if,instead of having a Linux
> > kernel which can run Windows cooperatively,we have a Linux kernel that
> > can run more Linux distributions (maybe only 2 as a starting point,as
> > CoLinux already does) at the same time,without using virtualization
> > software ?
> Check out: User Mode Linux
>
> > Is the technology behind Colinux the same that's under the
> > lxc or docker containers
> No
>
> > or the WSL2 subsystem ?
> No
>
> > What are the differences ?
>
> With LXC you still have just one Linux kernels, but for processes it
> "feels" like they have their own kernel "alone" but actually they are
> just isolated from the other processes. The kernel got better in
> providing processes own seperated "environments".
>
> WSL is bascially using a VM
>
> >
> > I don't use WSL2,I don't use Windows so much. I like Linux and FreeBSD.
> > So,an even nicer idea is to create a coLinux variant that allows the
> > Linux kernel to cooperate with FreeBSD. This is even nicer than making a
> > cooperation between 2 Linuxes.
>
> I don't really see why (except for engineering curiosity maybe) but
> google, maybe there is something like this, you might also like Debian
> GNU k FreeBSD
>
> -- Richard
> >
> > --
> > Mario.
> >
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Mario.
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