Re: Solaris
Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:02:19 +1000 (EST)
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