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Comment Re:Why did Novell not Linux-ify older Netwares? (Score 1) 111

by NOSghoul on Sunday March 21, 2010 @01:51AM (#31555430) Attached to: Novell Rejects "Inadequate" $2B Takeover Bid

One can always tell people who post comments about products they have no clue about.

Novell did "Linux-ify" their platform. It started with NetWare v5.0 back in 2000. OES on Linux was released in 2005. Where have you been for the past 5 years, by Zombie Ryushu?

NetWare v5.0 had a CLIB, Java VM and JVM-based XWindows GUI. It also supported CIFS. By NetWare v6.0, in 2003, they'd added a BASH shell, RPMs, ZLib and a lot more Linux components.

NetWare v3.x had been completely EOLed by 1999, and NetWare v4.x by 2003. Both were tied to IPX - it'd be insane to suggest it would have been worth the time and development effort to re-engineer them with Native IP (NCP over TCP/IP, which was introduced in NetWare v5.x) and the other *NIX-originated features they added to NetWare v5.x and v6.x.

As another poster has pointed out, OES ported the File and Print services traditionally associated with NetWare to a Linux platform. It's been out for years.

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