Now that we have a contact with CERT, could we ask them if VU#179804 and
CA-1999-08 from the wiki still apply to our code?
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:11 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/20 3:04 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
>> Jon this whole situation with Solaris having it's own code base which goes
>> back to 1.x. I'm curious if that is why there are a lot of tools and utils
>> (mostly ones starting with "sd") which aren't part of the open source
>> version?
>
> Yes - Sun used the 1.x base, and made many modifucations and added several of
> their own home-grown tools.
>
>> Ie.. they must have made those tools specifically for their version of CDE
>> and thus they never saw the "light of day" since Solaris never open sourced
>> their CDE.
>
> Correct.
>
>> Also, what was the deal back in the OpenSolaris days before Oracle killed
>> it? Did that codebase have CDE? I also wonder about Illumos. Do they still
>> have a CDE codebase, too? I'm guessing Sun just didn't release it with the
>> rest of the code.
>
> Due to the licensing restriction of CDE, sun never released the source for
> that. They were moving toward gnome at the time I think.
>
>> Not that it really matters. I'm just asking for the sake of trivia and
>> posterity. However, I would like to motivate myself enough to take on
>> writing one or two replacements for some of the cooler tools from Sun's CDE.
>> However, lately I've been just stuck doing MOTIF tutorials on my SGI IRIX
>> systems under Indigo Magic / 4DWM. It might not be CDE, but it's a kissing
>> cousin in my opinion.
>
> Well, we could use a new dtmail, and dtappbuilder needs love, and... :)
>
>> I also wanted to congratulate you and the team on the new release.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -jon
>
>> -S
>>
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