Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Dave Prentice wrote:
>
> >     Adobe last year cancelled the Linux beta of FrameMaker, but they have a
> > Unix version requiring Xwindows. Maybe this is a dumb question, but would
> > the Unix version run on Linux?
>
> Not likely. Most apps are not binary compatible across the different flavors
> of *nix. For example, Solaris binaries won't run on Linux, AIX won't run on
> HPUX, etc. I believe some Unices have software that provides some binary
> compatibility, but I'm not sure which.

What you could do is install it on one "server" it can run on, and then
use ssh X forwarding to run the application on all of your linux
workstations.

			Harry

 > -Tim
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