Wine ported to OpenBSD
- ID
- 37082
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 19 Oct 2026, 9:35 PM
- Fetched
- 20 Oct 2026, 2:43 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 4.0
- Created
- 20 Oct 2026, 2:44 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
A post to the openbsd-ports mailing list announces that Wine has been ported to OpenBSD, per the thread title. The submission drew 342 points and 93 comments on Hacker News. The article body could not be read, so the port's maintainer, the Wine version it tracks, packaging details, and known limitations are all unconfirmed.
Why it matters
There is no Malaysia or Southeast Asia angle here, and the excerpt gives no version, no performance numbers and no list of what works, so there is nothing concrete to act on. The only builders with a real decision are those maintaining OpenBSD ports or running Windows-only binaries on BSD infrastructure; everyone else can treat this as a compatibility note rather than a stack change.
Discussion angle
The 93-comment thread is the actual content here: ask what people expect to run under Wine on OpenBSD, and whether the port is useful for anything beyond curiosity given how much Windows tooling already assumes Linux containers.