hi, ok i had heard of freebs but, I didn't know that was an os it's self I thought it was just a firewall. ok, that shows what i know. thanks for the good info. charles f On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by cbowman@netdoor.com on December 11, 2001, at 10:36] > > >I had heard that it is posable to run some unix > >programs under linux I don't know if this is true, or not > > Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as Unix any more. Unix is the name of > the original operating system, developed a couple of decades ago, which has > become the template for all of the variants with which we're now familiar. > There are many variatns, including: AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Irix, Linux, SCO, > Solaris. It's really only correct to speak of an operating system as being > Unix-like, in which case Linux is as much Unix-like as any of the other > variants. > > If you have a binary (an already compiled program) for some particular Unix > variant, it probably won't run on any of the others. If, howver, you have the > source code, then, assuming the application already runs on one of the Unix > variants, there's a high probability that it'll run on any of the others. Since > no Unix variant is exactly like any of the others, however, you may need to > make minor changes to the source code and/or the build process (usually a make > file) in order to get it to work. > > >but, I had heard > >that there is a unix version of eudora is there a version of this for linux, > >or would the unix version work ok? has eanybody tried this? > > If there's a "Unix" version, and that's really the way it's being presented, > then it's probably source code, and can undoubtedly be compiled and run on a > Linux system. If it's just a binary, then whoever's referring to it as a Unix > version doesn't really know what he's talking about as, rather, he should be > stating which variant of Unix it's been compiled for. Again, Linux is as much a > Unix-like system as any other system which is described as being Unix. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me > EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >