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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!beagle From: thieleke@ix.netcom.com.no_uce (Jeff Thieleke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: questions of a Linux convert Date: Sun, 29 Jun 97 03:59:45 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5p4mji$kip@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <33B2F0AC.500F9F30@firmworks.com> <87k9jeigss.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsm-ia3-21.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Jun 28 8:59:46 PM PDT 1997 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6188 In article <87k9jeigss.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>, perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) wrote: > >David Bauer Christensen <dave@firmworks.com> writes: >> I have several elf apps that I use frequently at home: >> >> Netscape 3.01 & StarOffice 3.1 both are statically-linked >> Motif elf binaries ... will they work under NetBSD? > >Linux Netscape works fine under NetBSD. I don't know about StarOffice. Personally, I think the BSDI Netscape versions work a little better on NetBSD/i386, but the Linux version also works fine. I tried StarOffice 3.1 (the statically linked version) once, and after dinking with the installation scripts, each of the apps works as expected under NetBSD/i386. In general, almost all Linux programs work correctly under NetBSD. The biggest problem is finding the right set of Linux libraries (not a NetBSD specific problem, however). The FreeBSD people have a nice collection of Linux libraries - check on ftp.cdrom.com in the FreeBSD ports and/or packages directories. Jeff Thieleke