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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.