From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 8:51:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC3214C19 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:51:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 94292 invoked from network); 4 Sep 1999 15:51:10 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 1999 15:51:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:51:10 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Marty C Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: UNIX compatibility In-Reply-To: <37D138FD.CB42BD91@globalserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Marty C wrote: > I downloaded UIM/X for Solaris4.0-GNU (whatever that might be)... bash > says "unable to execute binary". Is FreeBSD in any way compatible with > Solaris? Not at a binary level, no. > > Assuming I was able to get neither the source code nor either a FreeBSD > or Linux binary, which UNIX, if any, is most likely to be compatible > with FreeBSD? FreeBSD can run Linux and some BSD/I binaries. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message