Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:24:16 -0700 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: Tze-Heon Chang <thchang@mail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility Message-ID: <20010110102416.D17720@Tesla.i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <386870443.979145655313.JavaMail.root@web349-mc>; from thchang@mail.com on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:54:15AM -0500 References: <386870443.979145655313.JavaMail.root@web349-mc>
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:54:15AM -0500, Tze-Heon Chang wrote: > I am a user of HP-UX 10.20 on a HP Workstation, I wonder if i could tranfer > the software from HP Workstation to a PC with FreeBSD and run it as usual. Binary progrgrams will not run because HP-UX runs on the HP PA/RISC architecture, which is a completely different CPU instruction set than the machines that FreeBSD runs on (Intel x86 and Alpha). In some cases, you can get equivalent software (e.g. most free software runs fine on both). In other cases, it will be more work at best. If you have the source code to the programs you want to run on FreeBSD, you can probably port your programs to FreeBSD. How easy this task is depends on how well the software was written in the first place. If it was written to the POSIX standard, porting it should be fairly easy. If it was written to be HP-specific, it will be more difficult. I've used both HP-UX and FreeBSD. Personally, I prefer FreeBSD. -- Kenneth Ingham ingham@i-pi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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