Samba for file sharing? I led development efforts for the first Samba release on VMS (IA64) working at HP. It was not performant enough compared to ASV but we were on the right path.
Polarhome was a free project where you could obtain a shell on many different operating systems. Nothing fancy hosted on some guys Swedish internet within his basement of servers. Discovered it when I was 13 and that brought me in to the world of Unix, Linux and Minix. Hosted my first ever blog, introduced me to shell's and compiling Apache to your own shell, I weep on how you can now click a button and have some $webinstance. I miss those times.
While reminiscing, credits to a guy called Stingray who I met on try2hack.nl in the Netherlands who gave me my first ever box hosted on his home net. I feel privileged for the freedom of internet I had back then compared to now. Folks just don't know.
Talk about triggered. Oh look, FreeBSD finished compiling.
>>> World build completed on Sat Nov 18 11:44:33 GMT 2023
>>> World built in 973 seconds, ncpu: 80, make -j79
You know i was thinking since years doing something like sdf.org but with jails. Where every user has a jail for themselves, but also a instance where every user can login into the same system ala sdf.
I recall back in the earliest 90s anybody could get a free telnet accessible shell account on one of the GNU ai.mit.edu servers. I used one like that for a time.
What’s the secret to getting an application for an OpenVMS community license approved? I’ve gone through the process and replied to the email, etc. three times in the past six months.
I don't think so? I don't know what username and password I would use. (edit: after reading your message to someone else in similar straights, I'm curious: what is this login screen?)
And clicked on the email confirmation link("Visit the following link to confirm your request") after receiving the email, several times. That's it, that's all I know.
To everyone here who wants to try running OpenVMS natively today, they can run it on an x86-64 machine (includes AMD processors). Check out VMS Software and apply for a community license.
I first encountered VAX/VMS on a VAX 11/780 at Rose-Hulman in 1981, and was in awe of a machine that could do a million floating point operations per second!
Recently, I got one running in SimH in my android phone, and it runs OpenVMS 7.3. Telnetting into the VAX in my pocket was something I just had to do.
I too haven't been able to get a community license for the x86 port, yet.
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But now OpenVMS is available on x86 and you can run it in VirtualBox yourself: https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_Getting_Starte...
BTW when do you blog about a cluster setup? ;)
The quality of OpenVMS is really something else, also repeated from Dave Cutler[2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vASxBpf4ti0&list=PLewDXk9a8l...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE
https://web.archive.org/web/20230614005544/https://eisner.de...
Polarhome was a free project where you could obtain a shell on many different operating systems. Nothing fancy hosted on some guys Swedish internet within his basement of servers. Discovered it when I was 13 and that brought me in to the world of Unix, Linux and Minix. Hosted my first ever blog, introduced me to shell's and compiling Apache to your own shell, I weep on how you can now click a button and have some $webinstance. I miss those times.
While reminiscing, credits to a guy called Stingray who I met on try2hack.nl in the Netherlands who gave me my first ever box hosted on his home net. I feel privileged for the freedom of internet I had back then compared to now. Folks just don't know.
Talk about triggered. Oh look, FreeBSD finished compiling.
>>> World build completed on Sat Nov 18 11:44:33 GMT 2023
>>> World built in 973 seconds, ncpu: 80, make -j79
[0] http://polarhome.com/
Really was a different Internet back then.
The license and everything else is there.
I've done the form here, several times:
https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/
And clicked on the email confirmation link("Visit the following link to confirm your request") after receiving the email, several times. That's it, that's all I know.
I will admit to some amusement at this error:
Error 404: Email not found.
Is that what this 404 message I keep seeing on the internet means?
Thanks anyway! I guess I could email somebody on their team or something.
To everyone here who wants to try running OpenVMS natively today, they can run it on an x86-64 machine (includes AMD processors). Check out VMS Software and apply for a community license.
Recently, I got one running in SimH in my android phone, and it runs OpenVMS 7.3. Telnetting into the VAX in my pocket was something I just had to do.
I too haven't been able to get a community license for the x86 port, yet.
Surprised to find that Tera Term is still actively supported and has recent releases.
I knew it as a nice and simple term emulator from quite some years back. Though Windows only still.