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Re:BSD vs. Linux by 2trill2spill on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:38PM (#18574146)
Have you tried the FreeBSD Linux emulator? It can be annoying grabbing the required libraries off a Centos box but once you do it's been pretty reliable for me.
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Re:BSD vs. Linux by laumars on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:23AM (#18575729)
Not recently. About 10 or 15 years ago I used to use the Linux binary compatibility layer but when I last looked - 5ish years ago? - it seemed support for that had languished.

To be honest the tool I’d most want would be Docker and I couldn’t see that working even with binary compatibility.

On the FreeBSD servers I run, I just fire up a VM for the rare occasions I do require Linux (and it is extremely rare that happens), but Arch is a better compromise for me on my laptop.

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