Solaris 10 Linux support

From: Andrew J. Brehm (ajbrehm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:35:57 +0100

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/top10.jsp

"We've made Solaris 10 the most interoperable operating system platform
ever. Linux applications will run on Solaris 10--natively. No emulation,
no complication, no performance hit. Perhaps you want to run that x86
application on some bigger UltraSPARC processor iron--no problem. We
base our work on open standards to make transitions easy--and a lot less
expensive than the last transition you went through."

This is rather unclear and the further information given on other pages
doesn't help much either.

Does this mean that Solaris/SPARC will run x86 Linux binaries or why is
"x86 application" mentioned in conjunction with Linux compatibility and
"UltraSPARC processor iron"? 

-- 
Andrew J. Brehm
Marx Brothers Fan
PowerPC User
Supporter of Chicken Pizza

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