Recently I had a requirement to run a Linux application, with some dependencies on Linux packages. My attempt was to run it on NetBSD and if not feasible at least a BSD.
I tried out Linux emulation on FreeBSD. With the debootstrap package you get a complete Ubuntu environment on FreeBSD. Using apt I could install all the dependencies and the above requirement could be met quite effortlessly. I also saw some howtos that get chromium browser and even DRM working on FreeBSD. In principle, as NetBSD does have Linux emulation, I thought, all of this should be possible on NetBSD as well. But why don't we get it that seamlessly on NetBSD? Can we not have an equivalent of debootstrap and leave the Linux installations to the user, than, for example, creating *-bin packages in pkgsrc? -- Mayuresh
