From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 8:56:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5C514E63 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA59468; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:55:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:55:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Scheidt Cc: Marty C , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: UNIX compatibility Message-ID: <19990904105556.B58001@dan.emsphone.com> References: <37D138FD.CB42BD91@globalserve.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 04), David Scheidt said: > 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. There is an svr4 module in (at least) -current, that is supposed to be able to run Solaris/x86 binaries. I don't know how complete the emulation is, but it can't hurt to try it out. Installation instructions are at http://www.freebsd.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message