From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 18:57:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05416 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05352 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA12308; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:56:50 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA04140; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:56:44 -0600 (CST) To: Jeff Zhen Chi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatability of FreeBSD References: <199803042128.NAA02862@arcadia.hal.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 04 Mar 1998 20:56:44 -0600 In-Reply-To: Jeff Zhen Chi's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:28:05 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <87ra4hkfpv.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Zhen Chi writes: > I am wondering if FreeBSD compatable w/ Linux. I have several software r > runnning on the Linux platform. Are they also able to run on FreeBSD? FreeBSD supports linux elf and a.out binaries. This compatibility is very good but there are a few programs that will not run. E.g., vnc for linux doesn't work (but there's a freebsd port for it so it's not a big deal). Staroffice, applixware and many other important apps run fine. Perhaps it would help if you listed the software you needed to run, and people could then give specific answers as to how well these binaries work. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message