From: kstailey@yahoo.com (Kenneth Stailey)
Subject: Free SunOS (was Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!))
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:18:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111181853.25105.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311111658.hABGwa5t025453@skeeve.com>
--- 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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 16:58 Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!) Aharon Robbins
2003-11-11 18:18 ` Kenneth Stailey [this message]
2003-11-11 18:31 ` [TUHS] Re: Free SunOS M. Warner Losh
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