From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 12:58:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA26232 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:58:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-11.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA26220 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07021; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:58:55 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:58:54 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Sergey Solyanik cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun binaries In-Reply-To: <349CEAEB.59E2B600@atom.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Sergey Solyanik wrote: > I'm in curiuos - can I run Sun/i386 (if they exist in nature - I've met > only with sparc) ? Yes Virginia, there is a Solaris/x86. Avoid it like the plague ;-) > I know about SCO binaries. I've sucessfully run Oracle for a year... > And now, I want to run IBM's DB/2. If you already have FreeBSD, go ahead and give it a try, I doubt that they will run though. It's my understanding that Sun uses ELF binaries, and while Sparc binaries won't run at all, one could probably hack together a little Sun emulator using bits and pieces of the Linux emulator. Not that OS/2 isn't a worthwhile choice either. > And I know rumours, that OpenBSD can run Sun/i386 binaries... Perhaps you mean OpenBSD/Sparc can run Sun/Sparc binaries? - alex