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Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by drewg123 »

In order for the linux compat to be generally useful, we really need to get electron apps working, which means getting chrome itself working.

There are some commercial software packages that run which are useful in more limited scopes. For example, I run a linux PVR server (SageTV), and Intel's Vtune GUI. But getting chrome & electron working would enable tons of commercial linux apps.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by dddddaviddddd »

drewg123 wrote: post #2

In order for the linux compat to be generally useful, we really need to get electron apps working, which means getting chrome itself working. There are some commercial software packages that run which are useful in more limited scopes. For example, I run a linux PVR server (SageTV), and Intel's Vtune GUI. But getting chrome & electron working would enable tons of commercial linux apps.

Running Linux Chrome in a FreeBSD Linux jail already works [1].

But, Chrome is already ported to FreeBSD [2]. Not sure why you'd need Linux Chrome specifically. In fact, there's already a port of Electron [3].

[1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-go...

[2] https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium

[3] https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/

Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by drewg123 »

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #3
drewg123 wrote: post #2

In order for the linux compat to be generally useful, we really need to get electron apps working, which means getting chrome itself working. There are some commercial software packages that run which are useful in more limited scopes. For example, I run a linux PVR server (SageTV), and Intel's Vtune GUI. But getting chrome & electron working would enable tons of commercial linux apps.

Running Linux Chrome in a FreeBSD Linux jail already works [1]. But, Chrome is already ported to FreeBSD [2]. Not sure why you'd need Linux Chrome specifically. In fact, there's already a port of Electron [3]. [1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-go... [2] https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium [3] https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/

Its marked as broken in the LinuxApps page linked to from the article (https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxApps). And its been broken every time I've tried it on -current.

You need Linux electron working in order to be able to run things like Slack's Linux desktop app, and other electron apps which are compiled for Linux.

And you need the Linux binary chrome from Google in order for DRM to work.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by djsumdog »

I wish there was a usable Docker Engine API implementation that could run containers in jails using zfs for image layering. There is a Docker for FreeBSD port, but last time I checked, it was super old. Having Docker as a first class citizen on FreeBSD would make it really incredibly as a server OS.

Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by hs86 »

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #3
drewg123 wrote: post #2

In order for the linux compat to be generally useful, we really need to get electron apps working, which means getting chrome itself working. There are some commercial software packages that run which are useful in more limited scopes. For example, I run a linux PVR server (SageTV), and Intel's Vtune GUI. But getting chrome & electron working would enable tons of commercial linux apps.

Running Linux Chrome in a FreeBSD Linux jail already works [1]. But, Chrome is already ported to FreeBSD [2]. Not sure why you'd need Linux Chrome specifically. In fact, there's already a port of Electron [3]. [1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-go... [2] https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium [3] https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/

It does not look good for the Electron port [1].

These ports will be removed soon due to their Python 2 dependency, and the available versions are not supported anymore [2].

[1] https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=electron&search=...

[2] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/support

Re: Ubuntu Linux Jail on FreeBSD 12.2-Release

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Post by codetrotter »

drewg123 wrote: post #5
dddddaviddddd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Running Linux Chrome in a FreeBSD Linux jail already works [1]. But, Chrome is already ported to FreeBSD [2]. Not sure why you'd need Linux Chrome specifically. In fact, there's already a port of Electron [3]. [1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-go... [2] https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium [3] https://www.freshports.org/devel/electron5/

Its marked as broken in the LinuxApps page linked to from the article ( https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxApps ). And its been broken every time I've tried it on -current. You need Linux electron working in order to be able to run things like Slack's Linux desktop app, and other electron apps which are compiled for Linux. And you need the Linux binary chrome from Google in order for DRM to work.

Worth to make note of the fact that the forum post that was linked to by the parent comment to yours, about being able to run Linux Chrome on FreeBSD, was actually posted today. So it might be promising? But at the same time, the post also states that it relies on a few workarounds that are likely to interfere with other things on the system. So probably one should not get their hopes up too high just yet either.
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