FreeBSD version

[eh79]

Any chance we could get a FreeBSD version of nxnode and nxserver?

[Britgirl]

Hi, we’ve often contemplated offering a version for FreeBSD, but it really all comes down to the number of users who would be interested. Interest has been rather sporadic which simply doesn’t justify the costs: not just investment for initial development, but also the subsequent maintenance efforts involved when supporting any platform such as the constant regression tests which are fundamental at every release.

[titan]

We never investigated this, really, due to lack of time, but what chances are that the NoMachine server for Linux can work using the Linux compatibility layer?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html

If most binaries work (as I expect) adding FreeBSD support as if it was just another Linux distribution would be at easily feasible. This would at least open NoMachine to the fine BSD crowd. I wouldn’t mind performance. The underlaying NX software is very POSIX standard and, as you certainly know, Linux executables work on top of this BSD compatibility at their full speed.

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