From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 16:24:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29382 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29371 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA15649; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:53:00 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA87975; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:52:58 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:52:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Joseph T. Lee" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990107105258.I78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901041525.JAA24266@mail.netsys.hn> <199901041549.PAA26823@cywub.sitel.com> <19990106063026.A11477@la.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990106063026.A11477@la.best.com>; from Joseph T. Lee on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:30:26AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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