Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:07:08 -0600 (CST) From: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net> To: nugundam@la.best.com (Joseph T. Lee) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <199901072107.VAA16243@cywub.sitel.com> In-Reply-To: <19990106063026.A11477@la.best.com> from "Joseph T. Lee" at Jan 6, 99 06:30:26 am
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> > 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.. Although SCO and FBSD can run some of the same binaries, they really come from two totally different branches of the Unix tree. SCO comes from the AT&T sysv branch, and there are countless incompatibilities in the internals. Besides, 99.999% of the SCO-compatible drivers are available in compiled binary form only. (Remember, 'c' compiler is extra with SCO.) Good day JSW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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