From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 6:25: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3B237B76B for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26886; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:24:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA10051; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:24:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10045; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:24:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:24:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Nathan Vidican Cc: troy@picus.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris binaries on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <395B457E.90694112@wmptl.com> 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 I know FreeBSD supposedly runs solaris binaries, but I have not tried it. (The only solaris boxes I have around are UltraSPARC boxes, not x86) I guess it couldn't hurt to give it a go yourself though. On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Troy Settle wrote: > > > > All, > > > > How viable would it be to run Solaris x86 binaries on a FreeBSD box? > > > > Would I be better served running Solaris sparc binaries on OpenBSD? > > > > The specific application in question, is Netcool. The other biggie would be > > Oracle. > > > > I ask because after a few months working off and on with Solaris, I'm *NOT* > > impressed. > > > > TIA, > > > > -- > > Troy Settle > > Network Analyst > > Picus Communications > > 540.633.6327 > > > > It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Don't know about the Solaris x86 binaries under FreeBSD, but I've just > finished installing OpenBSD 2.7 onto a few Sparcstations, I'll let you > know how it runs if you want? (Our software mostly Solaris/sparc > binaries for CAD applications). > > > -- > Nathan Vidican > webmaster@wmptl.com > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > http://www.wmptl.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message