From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 16:20:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.itenas.ac.id (mail.itenas.ac.id [203.109.3.4]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8C04C35 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:04:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bambang@localhost) by mail.itenas.ac.id (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA14241; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:13:07 +0700 (JAVT) (envelope-from bambang@itenas.ac.id) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:13:05 +0700 (JAVT) From: Sukotjo Bambang To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility In-Reply-To: <20000213215152.P17536@fw.wintelcom.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 Sorry, I forgot to tell you sophis URL. This is it : http://www.sophis.be Regards, Sukotjo S. Bambang ******************************************* E-Mail : bambang@itenas.ac.id ssb1010@mailcity.com On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Sukotjo Bambang [000213 21:38] wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > * Sukotjo Bambang [000211 18:51] wrote: > > > > > > > > Dear sir, > > > > I have a problem with HP/UX and now I looking for a posibility to change > > > > my HP/UX with freebsd. I need some sugestion from you about HP/UX and > > > > FreeBSD compatibility. > > > > > > Can you list some of the compatibility you need? FreeBSD can not > > > run HPUX binaries, but many programs that run on HPUX can be compiled > > > on FreeBSD. I'd probably be correct in guessing that the amount > > > of programs that can be compiled without problems under FreeBSD is > > > much greater than under HPUX because of the ports system. > > > > > > see: http://www.freebsd.org/ports > > > > > > > I planned to change my O/S from HPUX to freeBSD. Now, I have an > > application by Sophis. That S/W used for graphic design. > > Well you didn't supply a URL to this company 'Sophis' so I looked > them up at http://Sophis.com/, but wasn't able to find any information > about what archetectures they provide thier software for. The english > site it really poor on content and the .be site seems to be down. > > You need an Intel or Alpha machine to run FreeBSD, as far as I know > HPUX only runs on PA-RISC. This means you can't run HPUX programs > because we don't have a PA-RISC/HPUX emulator. > > You'll have to ask your software vendors if they provide FreeBSD, > SCO or Linux versions. (FreeBSD can run Linux and SCO programs) > > You do realize you need a PC or alpha for FreeBSD right? > > good luck, > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message