Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

t2000kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:35:42 -0500, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
There are kernel compatibility modules for running otherBSD binaries on
thisBSD. No idea how well that works.

From the GENERIC configuration file for OpenBSD:

option COMPAT_SVR4 # binary compatibility with SVR4
option COMPAT_IBCS2 # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC
option COMPAT_LINUX # binary compatibility with Linux
option COMPAT_FREEBSD # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
option COMPAT_BSDOS # binary compatibility with BSD/OS

This does sound interesting. It will have to wait for enough time to
read about this before trying it out, but the 3rd or 4th option might
make it possible to run Wine.

I'll flag your post so I don't lose it when I refresh the group.

This will not work. The problem is that WINE uses some tricky threading
features[1] that are not supported on OpenBSD. Those same tricky
threading features are not supported in OpenBSD's Linux emulation
either.

An effort to get WINE to run on OpenBSD is currently being undertaken by
some OpenBSD users, but I have no idea whether or not that will result
in a working port, and how soon.

Joachim

[1] Ask your friendly neighbourhood expert what those are, I don't know.
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