Re: linux emulation

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

FreeBSD has gone to CentOS 6 (100% open source RHEL clone), which I 
think was a good move.  I'm biased toward commercial scientific 
software, though.  ( Matlab, etc. )  The vast majority of commercial 
Linux software vendors support RHEL 6 (not 7 yet in many cases) above 
all others.  SUSE Enterprise is pretty well supported as well.

Depends on the goals of people running Linux apps, though.  E.g. Linux 
Chrome isn't supported on RHEL because it uses an older kernel and core 
libs.  If the primary goal of Linux compatibility is to watch Netflix 
and Flash videos on a NetBSD box, then go with Debian or something else 
more cutting-edge.

Regards,

    Jason

On 05/03/16 07:01, Patrick Welche wrote:
> If one was to update the linux packages, any opinions on which version/distro?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick


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