Mastodawn

My experience with FreeBSD: great OS, I can just pretend its Linux and mostly figure everything out. Documentation is great! Most of the software I like that's in Linux packages is also in FreeBSD packages.

Can't easily cross compile to windows like you can with mingw in Linux... Huge problem for developing...

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slembcke Jan 29

@wildrose Is there some way to run linux containers on FreeBSD? I vaguely remember that being a feature. I do my Windows compilation in a container anyway. Makes setting it up on more than one computer much easier.

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R.L. Dane

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@slembcke @wildrose

There is a linux compatibility layer, and it can be containerized/Jailed, but it's not necessarily like running a full native linux container AFAIK.

I would really love to get #KerbalSpaceProgram (Linux native) working in #FreeBSD, but last I tried, it didn't want to work with compat_linux.

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slembcke Feb 2

@rl_dane @wildrose Well that will probably work just fine for running mingw from then!