26 Oct
2023
26 Oct
'23
6:46 p.m.
On October 24, 2023 10:51:03 PM John Forecast <john(a)forecast.name> wrote:
Sometime around mid-2022 the Linux kernel developers
decided to remove the DECnet code from the Linux
kernel. Kernel 6.0.x was the last release which included source code for a DECnet
implementation. More
recently, there has been some discussion around removing the code from the Long Term
Support kernels.
These changes mean that the repository I have been maintaining at
<https://github.com/JohnForecast/RaspbianDECnet> can no longer be installed on
recent releases.
Over the past year or so, I have been working on a replacement for this repository with
the following
characteristics:
...
I took a few minutes to look at this. I was able to get it running at a basic level in
an Ubuntu 22.04 VM under SmartOS. No tweaks were required. I was able to log in to an
Itanium2 machine running VMS 8.3, and do a directory of MIM::. Everything worked as
expected in a brief test.
I will spend more time with it in the coming days.
Once again, I wish to express my sincere thanks for doing this.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA