<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-important">Development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ended in July 2023
because no one was interested anymore to develop it.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:06 AM Richard <<a href="mailto:richard_siegfried@systemli.org">richard_siegfried@systemli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 03.12.23 19:58, Mario Marietto wrote:<br>
> Hello.<br>
> <br>
> maybe someone of you know the old project called "coLinux" :<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method<br>
> for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More<br>
> generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the<br>
> Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another<br>
> operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to<br>
> freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, without using a<br>
> commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which<br>
> is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC<br>
> virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to<br>
> run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> CoLinux is very old and not maintained for a lot of time and I'm not <br>
> interested in resurrecting it (and I don't have the competences to do <br>
> it),BUT I'm interested to gather some information about a similar <br>
> project that I have in mind. What about if,instead of having a Linux <br>
> kernel which can run Windows cooperatively,we have a Linux kernel that <br>
> can run more Linux distributions (maybe only 2 as a starting point,as <br>
> CoLinux already does) at the same time,without using virtualization <br>
> software ? <br>
Check out: User Mode Linux<br>
<br>
> Is the technology behind Colinux the same that's under the <br>
> lxc or docker containers <br>
No<br>
<br>
> or the WSL2 subsystem ? <br>
No<br>
<br>
> What are the differences ?<br>
<br>
With LXC you still have just one Linux kernels, but for processes it <br>
"feels" like they have their own kernel "alone" but actually they are <br>
just isolated from the other processes. The kernel got better in <br>
providing processes own seperated "environments".<br>
<br>
WSL is bascially using a VM<br>
<br>
> <br>
> I don't use WSL2,I don't use Windows so much. I like Linux and FreeBSD. <br>
> So,an even nicer idea is to create a coLinux variant that allows the <br>
> Linux kernel to cooperate with FreeBSD. This is even nicer than making a <br>
> cooperation between 2 Linuxes.<br>
<br>
I don't really see why (except for engineering curiosity maybe) but <br>
google, maybe there is something like this, you might also like Debian <br>
GNU k FreeBSD<br>
<br>
-- Richard<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Mario.<br>
> <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Mario.<br></div>