putty - filepro -sco

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>Simon--er, no...it was Brian K. White--said:
>> Careful. That version of openssh for osr5 has been obsoleted by several
>> later sco builds.  Obsoleted 2 ways, newer versions, and simpler
>> custom-installable packages, not to mention the intangible blessing of
>> simply being built and packaged by SCO themselves.
>
>Not to mention security patches too numerous to actually count.  Yours was
>the only pre-OSR6 binary dist of which I was aware, however.
...
>Bill Campbell had -the- biggest archive of open-source ports for SCO.  I
>think the flow of new ports has shrunk, if not ceased.  What's that tell
>you?  It tells me that it ain't just me--and his porting chops have
>-always- been better than mine, hands down.  It's definitely nothing to do
>with skill on his end.  It must have been a choice with a reason backing
>it, as I've never known him to do anything without a solid reason--whether
>I agreed with it or not.

None of our remaining SCO customers have systems that do much
more than run 3rd party applications that are only supported on
OpenServer.  I have an older version of the OpenPKG portable
packaging system ported to 5.0.6a which allows me to keep current
on the critical packages we use.  I've made a few cuts at
building the current OpenPKG release tree to OpenServer, but
haven't had the incentive (e.g. nobody who's paying me really
needs it) to fight it.

Bill
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