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I personally find the Linux support "good enough", and it's one reason I choose FreeBSD over OpenBSD on a few machines. OBSD is great, they got rid of Linux emu

I personally find the Linux support "good enough", and it's one reason I choose FreeBSD over OpenBSD on a few machines. OBSD is great, they got rid of Linux emulation for reasons I understand entirely, but it is on the other hand very handy to run the occasional Linux binary, mostly for a handful of closed source stuff that is never going to port to *BSD.

3xblah 7y ago
If I am not mistaken, I think NetBSD was the first to add Linux binary compatibilty. It is certainly useful. It is easy to exclude when compiling the kernel if it is not needed. I have used /emul/linux for running closed source Linux binaries.