Re: [rtl] Linux 2.0.36

[Donald Gaffney <gaffney@salus.med.uvm.edu>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, A YOKOYAMA wrote:

> My name is Akihiko YOKOYAMA at Keio Univ in Japan.
> 
>  Can RT-Linux execute Netscape or Internet Exploler?
>  Is there "Plug in" which execute ActiveX on Netscape?
> 

RT-Linux will run any user-space application that regular Linux can
run, this includes Netscape under the X Window System.

ActiveX is not native to Linux and so will *not* work in either
Linux or RT-Linux. ActiveX is a strategic platform technology
of Microsoft Windows. You need to select another technology for Linux.

If you have some Active-X or COM components you were hoping to
use, then you will need to develop a network application as
part of your real-time system. That is, your real-time task
will run on the RT-Linux box, and you will have a network
interface to control it. The MS Windows client will then communicate
with the RT-Linux box over the network.

If a network layer is unacceptable, you will need to re-write
(or re-discover in open-source code) the functionality of the
ActiveX components you were hoping to use.  

-Don

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