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From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: SunOS & SPARC
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:18:34 -0800
Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Actually they should run fine as long as you "roll your own" emulation
> environment by copying the necessary libraries and any other needed
> files from your sun box into the compat directory.  The SVR4 kernel
> binary compatibility layer is not maintained though, so your results
> may vary.

Hmmm, Kris, he was talking about running SPARC binaries on i386 :) But
maybe it would be possible to run Solaris/sparc binaries on the sparc64
port of FreeBSD. I'm not really aware of how mature that port is, tho
I've heard it's making great progress.

Cheers,
-- 
        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
        GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt
        EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk
        Of course it runs NetBSD!

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