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This was ten years ago, I have no idea what it's like in 2015. It's a syscall emulator and a pile of libs from Red Hat. It was reasonably reliable. X font rendering was awful. But then, Linux at the time wasn't much better; Ubuntu had only just started on the process of making the Linux desktop less annoying.

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It is maintained. epoll support is coming to the linuxulator in FreeBSD 11.

But you don't need it really. All the usual desktop software is available natively. Firefox, Thunderbird, Chromium, LibreOffice, Transmission, VLC, GIMP, darktable, ioquake3 :-)

You don't need to compile anything (if you don't want to, say, use LibreSSL everywhere), pkgng is excellent.

> But you don't need it really.

...games.

Is the syscall emulation layer good enough to run the Steam client and, to pick one at random, Kerbal Space Program?

> But you don't need it really.

You need it to run Linux Docker containers on FreeBSD. More on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

I don't think that's a good idea. I don't want to run Linux anything ;-)

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