4 Mar
2017
4 Mar
'17
6:29 a.m.
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Wesley Parish wrote:
And since the central Unix source trees have been
static - I don't think
Novell was much more than a caretaker, correct me if I'm wrong - and the
last SysVR4 release of any consequence was Solaris - has Oracle done
anything with it? - I think the best thing for all would be the release
of the Unix SysV source trees under a suitable open source license.
(I've made a similar argument for the IBM/MS OS/2, DEC VAX VMS, and MS
Windows and WinNT 3.x and 4.x source trees on various other Internet
forums: the horse has bolted, it's a bit pointless welding shut the barn
door now. Better to get the credit for being friendly and open, and
clear up some residual bugs while you're at it ... )
I agree pretty much across the board.
To be fair, I'd like to start from SysV and create a traditional
implementation of that for my own personal neckbeard use, but using a
kernel, such as Linux, that has decent modern hardware support. And I've
tried doing that, I'm just lost as to where to begin. ;)
-uso.