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Subject: Re: Linux emulation ....
From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On Wednesday, July 29, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:

>
>
> Something called the 'Linux compatibility layer' is mentioned in the
> FreeBSD Docker wiki page https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker. Am I too
> presumptuous interpretting that as progress towards 64-bit linux emulation
> :-) ? TIA & have a good one.
>

Yes, Dmitry Chagin commited a large number of changes to FreeBSD head in
June to add Linux 64bit  emulation. It is unlikely to make it into 10.2
release in time, but I heard people were trying.

Others (including Allan Jude) are now working on changes to the ports tree
to provide 64bit Linux ports.

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.html#Linux-Binary-Emulation-Layer-Upgrade

Regards,
Ben


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