Originally posted by Xaero_Vincent
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Wine also needs weird stuff to work like page 0 mapping which is a security risk. Frankly the Linux kernel only allows it to support Wine. Again, the target market for OpenBSD users aren't the sort to need to run Windows software**. They can also just run a cheap Windows laptop if they need to do that.
I predicted this Linux compat removal in my blog post here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/c...on_openbsd_5_5
At the time I needed it for Perforce but luckily they open-sourced the CLI client around the same time
** Excluding John Carmack and his history of using Visual Studio and still developing awesome software for all platforms including Windows of course: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...SD-Programming
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