From UNIX to LINUX

[pietro60]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

¿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.

[Paul Cross_1]

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.

[dirk dierickx]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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