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Thing written for posix-like OS runs on posix-like OS.



Dear lord, it really is not that simple. Having ported software and served as a package maintainer on both the Linux and BSD side you get anything from pathetically easy to nearly impossible (Julia on NixOS was one hell of a journey). Just yesterday we had a great article posted about some of the effort that goes into getting a big piece of software like Firefox to run properly on OpenBSD [1].

[1]: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230912094727




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