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* Alba Pompeo <albapompeo@gmail.com> [2015-12-22 13:37:52 -0200]:
> chroot is a little better than dual-boot, but still very unfriendly
> for a day-to-day usage of many proprietary tools.
> 

on x86, binaries linked against glibc can be made to work with
musl.

but isolating such software into a separate virtual environment
is a good idea anyway and then it's easier to use glibc based
userspace there.