From: lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Lyrical Nanoha)
Subject: [TUHS] Bell Labs Holmdel site coming down
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:27:00 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <200605172139.k4HLdVx5001770@wwws.monmouth.com>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006, patv at monmouth.com wrote:
> I have heard some grumblings of TOG possibly releasing CDE as open source,
> but have no idea of where that stands. To be perfectly frank, it had a
> lot of problems, especially in a 64-bit world. There were too many word
> size assumptions, and a very good friend struggled for many, many hours
> fixing those problems before it went to DEIL in India for support. It
> could probably still benefit from a good �many eyes� developer review and
> bug fix session in the hands of open source developers. However, IMHO, it
> no longer has any advantage over KDE or Gnome, but, as I said, that is my
> opinion.
It's not a matter of advantage so much as it's been a de-facto standard
for so long and I'd just like to work with it even if it's just a clone
like Lesstif.
> OSF1/Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX was already branded as UNIX, and it would be
> fun to see what would happen to the landscape if a branded UNIX was free.
> Unfortunately, too many proprietary licensed pieces of code in the HP
> version, especially in System V support, for that to ever happen. Oh well,
> we can all dream �
Well, there is the Solaris stuff, and some of it's gone into Heirloom,
which I believe is an attempt to bring together the existing open-sourced
Unix code, and bring it up to date. And I think Lesstif is a good enough
clone of Motif for the majority of programs, in the way that Linux is of
Unix, or am I wrong?
-uso.
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2006-05-17 21:39 patv
2006-05-17 23:27 ` Lyrical Nanoha [this message]
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2006-05-18 14:34 Michael Sokolov
2006-05-18 2:48 Norman Wilson
2006-05-17 22:40 Michael Sokolov
2006-05-17 22:30 Stuart, Jon
2006-05-17 23:13 ` John Cowan
2006-05-18 1:42 ` Wesley Parish
2006-05-18 8:36 ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-05-19 8:16 ` Wesley Parish
2006-05-19 20:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-05-18 8:50 ` Peter Jeremy
2006-05-18 9:42 ` Wilko Bulte
2006-05-17 19:56 patv
2006-05-17 20:48 ` Lyrical Nanoha
2006-05-17 15:29 tuhs
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