Dumb question: can I run Linux software on free / ope BSD?
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----0---- · 2015-09-13 21:02

I know that blender.org works on BSD, but what about gamedevelop,
atom, Inkscape, scribus, Krita, gimp, godot game engine and Firefox?

As that's all I use. Thanks for your help.

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theGeekPirate · 2015-09-13 21:06

Why don't you [search and see](http://openports.se)?

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----0---- · 2015-09-13 21:06

Didn't know such a thing existed. Thanks. I'll go take a look.

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theGeekPirate · 2015-09-13 21:08

Oh, and to be specific, that's for OpenBSD—you can use
https://www.freebsd.org/ports or
https://freshports.org/search.php?query=&search for FreeBSD.

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TeranNotTerran · 2015-09-13 21:14

No luck with Atom. If godot is in Go, probably. Firefox and Gimp work
well. Not so sure about the rest. (FreeBSD 10.2)

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----0---- · 2015-09-13 21:17

No gdevelop, atom or Krita, but everything else seems to be there.

Nice.

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----0---- · 2015-09-13 21:17

Sweet. Thanks. Roughly 75% success rate.

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fwaggle · 2015-09-13 21:38

Note that just because there's no port, doesn't mean the software
definitely won't work.

Freebsd's Linux emulation is pretty good - IIRC it's missing a couple
syscalls for really deep dark pthread stuff (that could be extremely
out dated though, I haven't used it in about two major releases) which
might bite you but give it a go.

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----0---- · 2015-09-13 21:40

I shall have to do an install and see if what I use works the, I
guess. Thanks for your help.

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rhabarba · 2015-09-13 21:57

FreeBSD's Linux layer has recently been updated quite a lot.

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rhabarba · 2015-09-13 21:57

None of them are actually "Linux software"...

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----0---- · 2015-09-13 22:01

No, but you know what I mean...

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[deleted] · 2015-09-14 14:02

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eartburm · 2015-09-21 23:13

Also note that FreeBSD can run most Linux binaries under emulation.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html

A lot of closed source Linux software runs on FreeBSD (and NetBSD) in
this manner.

It can be a bit fiddly to get it all to work sometimes, though.