Linux & Solaris compatability issues

It's not a silly question, but without knowing what help desk package you're using, it's impossible to say. However, based on
my experience with other software designed for Solaris, I would guess that there would be problems.

The news isn't entirely bad, though. It probably will run on Solaris 7 and you can obtain the non-commercial binaries for the cost of the media (about $20 is what I paid).
Of course, if it works and you will be using it commercially, you'll need to license it under commercial terms.

On the other hand, if you're feeling frisky, why not give it a try on Linux?

paul

Interestingly, you don't say what machine you're running Mandrake on... I'm going to guess that it's an x86 (Intel) machine.

As far as I know, Solaris 2.6 is for Sparc architectures.

If that the 2 statements above are true. Then you will not get your help desk running on Mandrake linux. Because the instruction sets of the machines (Sparc vs Intel) are completely different.

If however, you are running on a Sparc, it is still very unlikely that you will get them working.

Sun does have a version of solaris for the X86 architecture but your helpdesk software must also be compiled for x86.

Bottom line ...

You're not likely to get this working.

Hi!

Nope!

You cannot get Solairs code to run on Linux.
Since the instruction sets are diffrent.

The software would need to be ported to linux and recompiled.

Even if the instructions sets would be similiar you at least always would needto recompile the software in order to get it to run on Linux.

/Hasse

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