#15120: Linux binary compatibility
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Reporter: megastallman | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: System | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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Hi everyone!
Despite the bigger part of essential Free Software has already been ported
to Haiku, why not just implement any ways to run Linux binaries from a
chroot? Haiku already has BeOS compatibility layer in 32-bit versions, so
is it possible to implement Linux compatibility for 64-bit versions? Of
course, it would require the ELF-parser, half of the Linux syscalls
implementation, networking for Linux, a VFS layer, pulseaudio client, X11
DDX-component. That is a big amount of work, but it can attract more new
users to Haiku, especially those, relying on the software that is
unavailable for Haiku.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15120>
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