Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)

Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)

[Aharon Robbins]

> 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

Free SunOS (was Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!))

[Kenneth Stailey]

--- 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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[TUHS] Re: Free SunOS

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20031111181853.25105.qmail at web60506.mail.yahoo.com>
            Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> writes:
: I wonder if SunOS 3.5 could be liberated now that BSD is free.

I don't think so.  IIRC, there was a fair amount of SysV code going
into SunOS even at that time...

Warner