OT: SCO Forum

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Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> The only reason we ``took advantage'' of the Caldera ``Friends and Family''
> IPO was that my wife was pissed I had ignored the F&F offer from Red Hat.
> If I remember correctly, RH's came out the first day of the first
> LinuxForum in San Jose.

I just remember getting the invitation email and being shocked.  I think
you're quite possibly right on the timing though.

> I'm certainly no stranger to building open source software on SCO systems.
> My site, ftp.celestial.com, was considered the definitive source for
> compiled open source for SCO systems for years, and was the first reference
> on the SCO site for this type of thing.  Given Stallman's penchant for
> relating things to GNU, perhaps I was running GNU/Xenix and GNU/OpenServer.
> 
> I even have some RPM packages for OpenServer there.

I'm not saying it can't be done.  I utilised your resources extensively for
a long time when I had to deal with SCO boxen, until you pretty much moved
to linux yourself and things slowed down a lot with new ports.  Which,
hey...no complaints about it stopping as it was a generous resource for
which you asked nothing.

I gotta ask, since you've done so much porting to SCO though:  Was it not
far more painful than porting to many other *nix OS's?

> I took the time to get the OpenPKG portable package managment system
> Release 1.3 working on OpenServer several years ago.   I have 167 packages
> built for OSR 5.0.6a including perl-5.8.0, python-2.2.2, mysql-3.23.56,
> postfix-2.0.3, openssh-3.6.1p2, etc. -- basically most of the tools I use
> daily.  It works well enough for my needs so I'm not taking the time to
> bring them up to date (I'll spend my time on the OS X version first :-).

I've got perl's 5.8.1 on a few systems.  They have a 5.8.4 but the
prerequisite packages do some not-so-nice things to the systems involved.
It didn't play well with others.  And try getting SCO's releases working on
an older server like 5.0.4.  I have people ask for that (or even 5.0.2),
and some of that is just not going to happen.  As with fP, people were slow
to upgrade SCO releases unless they needed something--and even if they did.
Can't blame them at those prices, either.

Now...can anyone take your perl 5.8.0 and install, eh...Crypt::SSLeay, or
XML::Parser...any XS modules, really?  Does it actually load them?  If so,
your builds are better than SCO's own.

> Now if somebody wants to pay me to get the current OpenPKG release working
> on OpenServer <= 5.0.6a, I'll be glad to tackle the job.

I'm trying to get people -off- SCO, not help spin the Wheel of Pain.

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