* Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)
@ 2003-11-11 16:58 Aharon Robbins
2003-11-11 18:18 ` Free SunOS (was Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)) Kenneth Stailey
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From: Aharon Robbins @ 2003-11-11 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:13:16 +1300
> From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
>
> I've personally thought that Sun should release the source trees of its old
> BSD-based SunOS with the idea of getting back onside with all the Linux and
> Unix people it pissed off by its "buying" a "Unix" license from SCO, the
> Societe Commercial du On-Dit, the Commercial Society of Rumourmongers.
Don't hold your breath. Even SunOS 4.1.x had large chunks of System V Release 3
code in it: all the STREAMS stuff and RFS worked in that environment (not that
anyone ever used it). Also all of /usr/5bin, /usr/5lib etc.
Arnold
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* Free SunOS (was Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!))
2003-11-11 16:58 Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!) Aharon Robbins
@ 2003-11-11 18:18 ` Kenneth Stailey
2003-11-11 18:31 ` [TUHS] Re: Free SunOS M. Warner Losh
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From: Kenneth Stailey @ 2003-11-11 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
--- Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:13:16 +1300
>> From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
>> Subject: Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)
>> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
>>
>> I've personally thought that Sun should release the source trees of
>> its old BSD-based SunOS with the idea of getting back onside with
>> all the Linux and
>
>> Unix people it pissed off by its "buying" a "Unix" license from
>> SCO, the Societe Commercial du On-Dit, the Commercial Society of
>> Rumourmongers.
>
> Don't hold your breath. Even SunOS 4.1.x had large chunks of System
> V Release 3 code in it: all the STREAMS stuff and RFS worked in that
> environment (not that anyone ever used it). Also all of /usr/5bin,
> /usr/5lib etc.
>
> Arnold
I wonder if SunOS 3.5 could be liberated now that BSD is free.
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