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From: c...@flores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Wahl)
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Subject: Novell - More News
Date: 13 Jun 1994 14:51:30 GMT
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Just caught this snippet from PowerPC Newsline:
Subject: 2058 NOVELL WORKING ON LOW-COST SWITCHING DEVICE BASED ON LINUX
NOVELL WORKING ON LOW-COST SWITCHING DEVICE BASED ON LINUX
(June 10th 1994) Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux freeware Unix
System V.4 clone, has confirmed that Novell Inc is working on a
project based on his operating system, which is code-named Corsair.
Novell is said to be developing a 32-bit operating system based on
Linux, which interfaces with DR DOS - called Novell DOS 7 in its
latest incarnation - and UnixWare, which includes a Windows emulator
and bridges to Mosaic. The company declined to elaborate on Corsair,
saying that it was simply experimental technology in the labs, and
that it had not yet decided whether to make it into a product or not.
Torvalds also says that Novell is developing a new windows manager
for Corsair called Looking Glass: "I haven't seen it, but from what I
know it's great, better than the Common Desktop Environment. It seems
a solid product, and they will probably do some documentation. I
don't think they will in any way try to compromise the copyright of
the kernel itself because they'd be killed by the bad publicity."
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From: torva...@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Novell - More News
Date: 15 Jun 1994 14:23:51 +0300
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Oops. I probably shouldn't answer non-technical mail anymore, but I'd
better correct some things..
In article < COW.94Jun13164...@flores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>,
Oliver Wahl < c...@flores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>Just caught this snippet from PowerPC Newsline:
>
>Subject: 2058 NOVELL WORKING ON LOW-COST SWITCHING DEVICE BASED ON LINUX
>
>NOVELL WORKING ON LOW-COST SWITCHING DEVICE BASED ON LINUX
>(June 10th 1994) Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux freeware Unix
>System V.4 clone, has confirmed that Novell Inc is working on a
>project based on his operating system, which is code-named Corsair.
Argh. I can confirm that Novell at some point showed interest in Linux
for some internal experimental project, but I certainly can't confirm
the name nor if it would ever be used for anything but the internal
project..
>Torvalds also says that Novell is developing a new windows manager
>for Corsair called Looking Glass: "I haven't seen it, but from what I
>know it's great, better than the Common Desktop Environment. It seems
>a solid product, and they will probably do some documentation. I
>don't think they will in any way try to compromise the copyright of
>the kernel itself because they'd be killed by the bad publicity."
The quote is probably reasonably accurate, but taken out of context
(this was when discussing the PC Week articles).
Looking Glass isn't anything new by Novell, but has existed as a
separate window manager for some time. I heard about Novell possibly
using it for Linux the same way everybody else did: through PC Week. I
then asked around about it, and people who knew about it thought Looking
Glass was one of the better window managers around (and I'm pretty
certain almost anything is better than CDE :-).
So the "confirmations" by me are about as much worth as any other random
stuff that has floated around about Novell: I have no idea what the real
deal is, although I tend to hope the Novell rumors are true..
Linus
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