Re: Linux compatibility ...

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karan Girotra proclaimed:
> How can one determine if the unix version of any software will run on
> a linux machine??
> Doesn't linux support  older unix type of binaries ???
> so shouldn't all unix software run easily on linux ???

Binaries will not run across various unices.  If you have the source of the
software that was compiled for some flavour of unix, there is a higher
chance that it could be ported / compiled on a Linux machine with little /
no modification.

Thaths
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