topic From UNIX to LINUX in Operating System - Linux

From UNIX to LINUX

pietro60 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:25:04 GMT

I have an old workstation UNIX that should be replace because has some hardware problems and I would like to replace with Linux.
Is it possible used the same software programs that is running on Unix without recompile them on Linux?

Thank you in advince

Re: From UNIX to LINUX

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:28:46 GMT

Â¿What UNIX flavor are you talking about?

Normally, you can't, unless you use SCO Unix with foxpro and run the linux ABI kernel patch.

Re: From UNIX to LINUX

Paul Cross_1 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:06:01 GMT

It's going to depend on what software you want to use on the Linux machine. Most opensource apps are going to be available without compilation. It is likely, though that you are not going to be able to use the same commercial software on the Linux machine.

Re: From UNIX to LINUX

dirk dierickx — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:06:39 GMT

the unix workstation is probably not using intel x86 cpu's, so you will have a problem already right there.

Re: From UNIX to LINUX

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:41:57 GMT

no, you cannot to run the same binaries, but it is very possible that vendor provides linux version of this software.