From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 28 15:11:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA06351 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06293 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA06535 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:09:27 -0700 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA21614; Tue, 28 May 1996 10:11:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Reza Latjuba cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <31AACF32.9E8@slip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 May 1996, Reza Latjuba wrote: > I would like to know whether the software intended for SUN Solaris can > be used and installed in FreeBSD 2.1....I ask this question because The > architecture behind SUN Solaris and FreeBSD based on the same > architecture... I don't think so because they are NOT the same architecture, strictly speaking. Suns use the SPARC processor; FreeBSD uses Intel i386, which are vastly different. If you are referencing that Solaris is based on BSD, still no; Solaris is heavily modified version and isn't directly compatible. Even if you had the source to the program it would take some work to port it, depending on the program. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major