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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:26:44 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64-bit linux emulation
Message-ID:  <20150716202644.55cbf79b@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <6911798.EzPSnWE832@curlew.lan>
References:  <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7E2B8.6090405@gmail.com> <6911798.EzPSnWE832@curlew.lan>

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:08:14 +0100
Mike Clarke wrote:

> On Thursday 16 Jul 2015 10:58:32 jd1008 wrote:
> 
> > Since we are on the subject of emulation, why not just use 
> Virtual Box
> > in which to run Linux 64 bit?
> 
> We'd still need emulation for things like nvidia drivers and flash 
> plugin.

The binary nvidia driver is a native FreeBSD driver, the linux
dependencies are just there so it can work with linux applications.

The 32-bit flash plugin works on 64-bit FreeBSD.



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