FreeBSD and Quartus

[Altera_Forum]

For various reasons, I'm considering switching my main machine over to FreeBSD instead of Debian Linux. It appears that everything I regularly use is available in the FreeBSD Ports system except, of course, for Quartus. FreeBSD claims to be able to run Linux binaries. What are the odds that Quartus will work there? Has anyone tried this?

[Altera_Forum]

Probably about 0% :-( 

You might find that it is based on a very old distro. I know NetBSD's linux support has been updated moderately recently, but I wouldn't give that a high % chance. Linux firefox has run under NetBSD, duno if the latest version does though. OTOH any missing parts are probably simple kernel wrappers.

[Altera_Forum]

I suspected as much but there's always that little hope. It could have been that someone had done this and knew the steps needed.

[Altera_Forum]

I'd look at which distro's shared libraries get installed and then see if quartos is likely to run on that distro. 

If you are willing to fix the linux support you might get developer status.

[Altera_Forum]

Being able to fix Linux (or FreeBSD) support would be great. However, version 14.1 is seg-faulting on my Linux machine and I'd probably need sources to address that one. I don't imagine Altera would likely be too forthcoming there. For version 13.1 though, at some point I'm going to have to dive in and figure out why megafunctions broke (I suspect it's something to do with Java which has never worked very well for me).