Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:15:16 -0400 | From | Aaron Tiensivu <> | Subject | Re: Norton Utilities for Linux ? |
| |
> I'd like to see some Norton Utils clone project started up for > Linux before Norton themselves decide to do so. The main reason > being that the people in the know to do this, would likely be > hired by Symantec to do it in the first place, and might be under > contractual obligation to NOT do a GPL'd side-project, etc...
As a joke I always wanted to make a clone of MSD for Linux, just because you could call it LSD, for humour-value. I haven't done it because /proc and procinfo pretty much does that already.
> I know that Ted T'so or someone in his position worked with > Partition Magic I believe. I don't see a GPL'd product that > replaces it... so extrapolating, if a NU came out for Linux, > we'd be more pressed to come up with our own GPL'd effort.
I think there is a clause that states the source of that will be release on 19xx or maybe 20xx as GPL.. he's mentioned it in the past.
> In reality though, Linux is too dynamic I believe for a company > like Symantec to put out such a low level product that would not > need updates with each kernel revision...
To be safe you could make a statically linked version for major releases (2.0, 2.2, etc) or try to make it fairly kernel independant.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |