“Sun Microsystems released software today that lets Linux
programs run unmodified on Sun Solaris machines, part of an effort
to make sure Sun benefits from the Linux momentum.”
“The software that Sun released today, an enhancement to a
program called lxrun, intercepts program commands to the Linux
operating system and translates them, where necessary, into
Solaris, said Patrick Dorsey, product line manager for Solaris
marketing at Sun. Sun programmers wrote the addition and
contributed it back to the open-source community, he said.
Sun believes the software will help its own systems as well,
though. …’Compatibility helps both Solaris and Linux win in the
market, as opposed to, say, Windows NT,’ Dorsey said.”
“So far the software works only on the version of Solaris that
runs on Intel-based computers, but in the future, Sun plans to make
sure the software works also on Sun’s UltraSparc-based
computers.”