Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:52:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990107105258.I78349@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990106063026.A11477@la.best.com>; from Joseph T. Lee on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:30:26AM -0800 References: <199901041525.JAA24266@mail.netsys.hn> <199901041549.PAA26823@cywub.sitel.com> <19990106063026.A11477@la.best.com>
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On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 6:30:26 -0800, Joseph T. Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 09:49:14AM -0600, Jack Winslade wrote: >> The later FBSD versions can also run SCO binaries. I know of one case >> where an Informix SE license was moved from SCO to FBSD with very little >> hassle. They also tell me (the ubiquitous 'they') that Oracle runs fine >> under FBSD as well. > > How about SCO drivers? Seems lots of vendors still surprisingly support > SCO, besides mainstay windows, for their products. > > SCO drivers aren't directly usable by the free OSs, I presume.. Correct. It's not the difference "free OS" and "fee OS", it's just the fact that every kernel has significant differences. In general, you can't even use FreeBSD version X drivers on FreeBSD version Y. SCO has made this more possible simply because they have to, since drivers are distributed in object form. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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