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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: About FreeBSD
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:24:30 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <31AACF32.9E8@slip.net> from "Reza Latjuba" at May 28, 96 03:02:26 am
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> 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...

Work is under way to support running Solaris x86 binaries.

Unfortunately, the Linux ELF does not add an identification segment
(like it should), so it is hard to distinguish Linux ELF binaries
from Solaris ELF binaries.  Since they have different call gates
and different ld.so, etc., currently, it's only possible to
distinguish shared binaries by their choice of ld.so.

If you are interested in testing, you should contact the people
working on the problem (on the -current list).  Otherwise, the
code is not in any release version, and the answer is "no".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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