Dev switching from Codex to Claude hits FreeBSD wall, asks about porting the CLI

Novel_Indication6338 · reddit · 2026-10-15

A developer on Reddit says Claude's Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 clearly outperform OpenAI's models for coding, prompting a switch from Codex.

The blocker: both his dev workstation and servers run FreeBSD, where the Claude CLI doesn't run. He asks whether porting the CLI to FreeBSD would violate Anthropic's policy — the one thing holding him back from cancelling his Codex subscription.

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