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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Proprietary vs. open Unix Post 25771 by auswipe on Monday 5th of August 2002 10:33:02 AM
Old 08-05-2002
Re: Proprietary vs. open Unix

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Originally posted by bulletbob
Howdy all,

What is the difference between FreeBSD (for example) and more proprietary versions of unix like HP-UX or Solaris? Aren't they all built on rev 5 and generally adhere to the CDE? I'm sure there must be a few files or directories that are specific to a particular companies' version of unix so is there a way to find out what is different? Obviously what I'm going for is trying to run some of those unix apps on a FreeBSD box or something similar to that.
FreeBSD, like it's brethren Open and Net, are based upon BSD code from Berkely and not SysV systems. Chances are that the proprietary Unixes have better SMP support than FreeBSD (it will support SMP, but not as well as Linux). FreeBSD comes with several different types of binary emulation for Solaris (not sure which versions) and Linux (based upon RedHat 7.1, IIRC). I wasn't able to find much about the Solaris support from a few Googles that I did and that is not a good sign.

Are these apps compiled from code or already in binary format? I suspect that they are already in binary format hence the problem of running on a different flavor of Unix and different hardware architecture.

That's a pretty tough situation ya got there...
 

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MBK_WORK_LIB(1)                                              MBK ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES                                             MBK_WORK_LIB(1)

NAME
MBK_WORK_LIB - define the mbk working directory SYNOPSYS
c-shell running setenv MBK_WORK_LIB unix path ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr DESCRIPTION
MBK_WORK_LIB sets the directory where are saved the results of an invocation of mbk or genlib. This directory is considered to be, from an mbk point of view, read and write. Also, when a file is searched for reading, the first directory to be looked at is the MBK_WORK_LIB, and then the one defined in MBK_CATA_LIB(1). The unix path argument must be a actually accessible path on your host machine. ERRORS
"mbk_fopen : can't open file 'unix_path/file.xx'" This occurs when either the unix path is irrelevent, or when the file doesn't exist if it is open for reading, or when you don't have the right on the file or directory while trying to write it. EXAMPLE
setenv MBK_WORK_LIB ~fred/crechan/uom SEE ALSO
mbk(3), genlib(1), MBK_CATA_LIB(1). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. ASIM
/LIP6 October 1, 1997 MBK_WORK_LIB(1)
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