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icebraining on Nov 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Systemd redux: The end of Linux

Is a system running Linux + Wine no different than Windows, just because it implements the same Win32 API? Is FreeBSD the same as Linux, since they both implement POSIX?

There are many ways to implement the same APIs.

lmm on Nov 21, 2014 [–]

Wine is not reliable enough for mission-critical software. Nor is running a nominally POSIX-compliant program that hasn't been tested on FreeBSD. If a project claims not to hard-depend on systemd, I would not trust that unless it's actually, y'know, tested on something that isn't systemd.

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