Messages in this thread | | | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: Solaris | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:12:27 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> > 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.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.57 on a sparc64 machine (333.41 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________
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