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Xinuous (the company birthed from SCO's ashes) has announced its new OpenServer X operating system. It is described as a "mature and proven 64-bit operating system to support your most critical line of business applications, yet is affordably priced to host all computing needs", and it is "the continuation and consolidation of all previous Xinuos product families, SCO OpenServer® 5 & 6 and SCO UnixWare® 7".
According to the announcement,
Beginning with OpenServer X, the download and installation of the operating system is offered free of charge by Xinuos and includes the source code. A support bundle is available for customers who need affordable support, maintenance, upgrades and access to the tested Xinuos Application Collection. The support is available 24/7 by default at a highly competitive price.
Also announced is the Xinuos Business One Developer Program,
The new program is designed to assist developers who wish to port existing applications or build new applications to run on OpenServer X™, their recently announced secure, BSD-based open source operating system. Application developers and other partners who need applications that run on the OpenServer X operating system can join the Xinuos Business One Developer Program and benefit from a growing number of resources to assist them at every stage of their business.
(Score: 1) by tekk on Monday July 27 2015, @08:34PM
Did anyone else get that out of their "Key Features" list? I'm more of an OpenBSD guy but is there anything at all in their article that doesn't already exist in FreeBSD? Aside from that web admin system they apparently threw in, which is surely a fantastic idea that can never go wrong.
(Score: 2) by Lunix Nutcase on Monday July 27 2015, @08:37PM
Yep, pretty much.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:38PM
So how long until they start suing the FreeBSD people for stealing their code?
(Score: 2, Informative) by mr_mischief on Monday July 27 2015, @09:57PM
The web admin system sounds a lot like Webmin. I did some searching and within tens of seconds found other web-based system software named very similarly.: X-Admin [webdevelopment.iws.ro]
This is not too surprising, though. They seem to be rebranding FreeBSD as the OS, and Xinu is already an OS (one used for a series of books/courses on OS design and implementation similarly to Minix).: Xinu [purdue.edu]
Also, the announcement states it's the first open source OS they've offered. That's simply a lie. Caldera bought SCO (symbol: SCO) and renamed the whole merged company The SCO Group (symbol: SCOX). Then they started suing people over Linux. The truth was, though, that before and for a while after the merger they sold Caldera OpenLinux. I even own a boxed copy of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 as a matter of fact. Yes, Xinuos is UnXis, and yes technically UnXis was a "new company [zdnet.com]" that was founded and immediately bought the OS assets of The SCO Group. Basically, though, Attachmate owns the Unix code. The Open Group owns the "Unix" trademark. Caldera/TSG sold off some trademarks and some custom code along with code licensed from Novell/Attachmate so that people could still make money on those assets once TSG went belly-up from pursuing its idiotic lawsuits. I'm not convinced the sale was to independent parties, and was probably just a formal shelter for the parasites to create their own new host. This company is in the lineage of Caldera, so saying this is the first open-source OS they've sold is at most half true.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday July 27 2015, @10:12PM
I don't know nearly enough here to make a truly informed decision, but it doesn't help keeping the name.
In a way, it sounds like Hitler(tm) branded breakfast sausage that's now Kosher. As long as the lineage of that company is the same (read: same assholes in monkey suits), I think I will steer clear of it. The bonus is that it sounds like most of it are features found in the BSD ecosystem *anyways*, and I've been moving over to OpenBSD for around 6 months now.
Just hearing the name SCO group makes me think there aren't enough legal protections invented to work with them.
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