Subject: Re: COMPAT_LINUX working?
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/16/2007 12:33:18
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:09:36AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> Does COMPAT_LINUX work on NetBSD/alpha?  Is there freely available
> binary-only software for AlphaLinux that one would want to run on
> NetBSD/alpha?  I think the Compaq C compiler is freely available.
> Are there others that might be worth packaging in pkgsrc?

There is also Compaq Fortran - more interesting than C IMO.

IIRC Linux qemu can run linux/i386 binaries ("User emulation") which could
be an interesting feature.

There is also AlphaLinux version of realplayer.

Pavel