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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please help with netbsd or openbsd question
Date: 8 Aug 1996 17:02:33 +0200
Organization: FWINS, University of Amsterdam
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Paul Weber <weber@ee.cornell.edu> writes:

>Does netbsd or openbsd run LINUX binaries?  If they can, how well does
>it work with programs such as matlab.

NetBSD/i386 runs Linux binaries just fine. I haven't tried matlab myself,
but I have no reason to assume it wouldn't work. See the compat_linux(8)
manpage for more details.

- Frank