[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix Linux
- From: Steve Bradbury <steve.bradbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:15:03 GMT
On 4 Dec 2006 in message <7d23f98f4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <14ff988f4e.Nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Nigel Willmott <nwillmott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 5) Anyone know if Open Office and/or Wine can be run on Iyonix Linux?
> > How about the Rox filer ...
>
> As a rule of thumb, the only Linux software you cannot run on the
> Iyonix is closed-source software distributed as platform-specific
> binaries without any ARM binaries being available. Any other properly
> written Linux software distributed as source code should just run.
Wine is a sort-of exception to this. It is open source, but a lot of the
stuff you'd want to run under it is not (and if it were you'd just
compile it under Linux and run it natively)
You won't be able to use Wine to run Windows closed-source binaries -
that only works on an Intel/AMD Linux platform.
--
Steve Bradbury
Senior Structural Engineer
Alan Dick & Co. Ltd
(+44) 1242 537832
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