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Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are n
by stingraycharles 7y ago
Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are not ported to BSD, and this provides an answer to that.
Microsoft has the “embrace, extend, extinguish” mantra for a similar reason.
- uncle_j 7y ago> Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are not ported to BSD, and this provides an answer to that. It tells developers that users will put up with the compatibility layer. Also setting up these compatibility layers has its own set of complications e.g. random things not working, sub-optimal performance etc. The only people that have pulled it off has been Microsoft with WSL and there has been problems with that. I for a laugh setup basically a Xubuntu desktop and I had lots of odd errors being reported in the console.
- emaste 7y agoExactly this. I use FreeBSD exclusively for my development, but there are a few pieces of proprietary software that are only available as Linux binaries (like FPGA toolchains), and having a viable Linux ABI layer means that I do not need to resort to having an entire second operating system in a VM or another machine.