From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 14:55:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E28937B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA1MtrW24815; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:55:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:55:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: mdusky Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility Message-ID: <20001101145553.F20567@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <000b01c04443$81b208c0$d03d183f@comp2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <000b01c04443$81b208c0$d03d183f@comp2>; from mdusky@gateway.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:37:03PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * mdusky [001101 12:30] wrote: > Hi: > > I was wondering what the freeBSD operating system is compatible with as far > as software goes. Could I run Sun Systems software or HP Unix software? Am > I limited to Linux compatible software? Give me the full scoop. You can only run software on FreeBSD for the same platform, HP and Sun boxes afaik run on PA-RISC and Sparc CPUs, so probably not. However you should be able to run SCO, Linux and possibly Solaris-x86 applications on FreeBSD. > Also, is freeBSD operating system based on the Linux kernel? haha, no. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message