>>>>> "Casey" == Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> writes:

Casey> Randal, what's your opinion: should we get started on one of
Casey> these BSD boxes, or should we drop in on existing infrastructure,
Casey> and then repeat the effort when the BSD hosts become generally
Casey> available?  I'll stick it through either way, but I'm looking to
Casey> build consensus on what the right course of action is.

The FreeBSD ports is a superset of just about everything else, so it
won't matter much. Just a matter of typing the right "portmaster"
commands.

If we do end up with something that will run only on Linux, that's also
usually not a problem, as the FreeBSD install can be tweaked to
understand the Linux ABI natively on a per-binary basis.  (Not an
emulation, but native syscalls that are Linux syscalls instead of
FreeBSD ABI calls.)

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