Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Reed <> | Subject | Re: Solaris | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:02:19 +1000 (EST) |
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In some mail I received from Jakub Jelinek, sie wrote > > > > > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Thomas Pornin wrote: > > > > > By the way, this list is about the linux OS, which has nothing to do > > > with Solaris (apart that linux is much better in many points of view). > > > > I would really like to run Solaris binaries on linux. As I undestand it, > > Solaris intel binaries are elf, so given the correct libraries, and loader > > conventions, it seems that there is a possibility of running Solaris > > binaries. According to SunSoft, there are 2500 applications ported to > > Solaris Intel (and 10000 applications are ported to Solaris Sparc) so > > there is some advantage to emulating Solaris (probably more advantage of > > Solaris emulation than SCO emulation at this point). > > Linux/Sparc64 has now some sort of Solaris/SPARC emulation, it runs several > binaries, but not those using networking yet. And yes, those Solaris > binaries run faster than on native Solaris.
Are comparative benchmarks available somewhere ?
Darren
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