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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:55:53 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        mdusky <mdusky@gateway.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compatibility
Message-ID:  <20001101145553.F20567@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c04443$81b208c0$d03d183f@comp2>; from mdusky@gateway.net on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:37:03PM -0500
References:  <000b01c04443$81b208c0$d03d183f@comp2>

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* mdusky <mdusky@gateway.net> [001101 12:30] wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I was wondering what the freeBSD operating system is compatible with as far
> as software goes.  Could I run Sun Systems software or HP Unix software?  Am
> I limited to Linux compatible software?  Give me the full scoop.

You can only run software on FreeBSD for the same platform, HP and
Sun boxes afaik run on PA-RISC and Sparc CPUs, so probably not.
However you should be able to run SCO, Linux and possibly Solaris-x86
applications on FreeBSD.

> Also, is freeBSD operating system based on the Linux kernel?

haha, no.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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