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Subject: 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. GENERAL INFORMATION
3.1 What does HP-UX stand for?
3.2 Where can I find a good overview of HP-UX?
! 3.3 What is the release history of HP-UX?
3.4 Where can I find definitions of various HP-UX terms?
3.5 What is HP's address and phone number?
3.6 How does HP-UX rank among other enterprise Unixes?
+ 3.7 How does the Compaq merger affect the HP-UX roadmap?
4. RESOURCES
4.1 FAQs
4.1.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
! 4.1.2 What other HP-UX-related FAQs exist?
4.2 Web Sites
4.2.1 HP Sites
4.2.1.1 What is the URL of HP's main web site?
4.2.1.2 Where can I browse HP documentation on the Web?
4.2.1.3 Where can I get support from HP on the Web?
4.2.1.4 Other HP Sites
4.2.2 Non-HP Sites
+ 4.2.2.1 EnterpriseUnix.org
4.2.2.2 EPFL Support HP / HPLine
4.3 Newsgroups
4.3.1 List of Usenet newsgroups
4.3.2 HP's newsgroup policy
4.3.3 The ITRC HP-UX Forum
4.4 Mailing Lists
4.4.1 HPUX-Admin Mailing List
4.4.2 HP 9000 series 500 Mailing List
4.4.3 HPMINI-L Mailing List
4.5 Periodicals
4.5.1 hp-ux/usr
4.5.2 The HP Chronicle
4.6 Books
4.6.1 HP-UX 11.x Books
4.6.2 HP-UX 10.x Books
4.6.3 HP-UX 10.x/11.x Books
4.6.4 CDE Books
4.6.5 Books from HP
4.6.6 HP Product Manuals
4.7 Local Files
4.7.1 The HP-UX Reference Manual
4.7.2 /usr/share/doc
4.8 Conferences and Workshops
4.8.1 HP World Conference & Expo
4.8.2 InterWorks Conference
4.8.3 HP/Works Technical Workshops
4.9 Courses and Certifications
4.9.1 Courses offered by HP
4.10 Organizations
4.10.1 Organizations within the U.S.
4.10.1.1 Interex, The International Association of
Hewlett-Packard Computing Professionals
4.10.1.2 InterWorks
4.10.2 Organizations outside the U.S.
4.10.2.1 Interex Netherlands HP User Group (AKA DutchWorks)
4.10.2.2 HP/Works
4.10.2.3 Japanese HP Computer Users Association
4.11 Third-Party Vendors
4.11.1 Hewlett-Packard Vendor Listing
5. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
5.1 Auditing and Security
5.1.1 How do group privileges work?
5.1.2 Why are mail files in /var/mail owned by 'daemon' instead
of the recipient?
5.1.3 How can I restrict regular users from logging in at the
console?
5.1.4 How can I disable non-root logins?
5.1.5 Where can I find a list of all patches corresponding to
security advisories?
5.1.6 How can I protect my systems against SATAN?
5.1.7 What are the major differences between trusted and
non-trusted systems?
5.1.8 How can I configure things like minimum password length,
password history, and maximum simultaneous logins?
5.1.9 What is the sticky bit's purpose?
5.1.10 Does HP-UX have a /dev/random, /dev/urandom, or similar
device?
5.1.11 How can I protect my system from viruses?
5.1.12 What information is available on configuring HP-UX for
maximum
security?
+ 5.1.13 Does HP-UX support /etc/shadow like Solaris and Linux?
5.2 Backup and Recovery
5.2.1 Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
5.2.2 How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
5.2.3 Why do cpio/tar/dump/pax all backup to tape painfully slowly?
5.2.4 What CD burning software is available?
5.3 Disks and File Systems
5.3.1 How can I enable long file names?
5.3.2 Is it possible to create a RAM disk?
5.3.3 What happened to DUX and context dependent files (CDFs)?
5.3.4 Why can't I use all of my swap space?
5.3.5 How can I determine which disk is the boot disk?
5.3.6 Why does pfs_mount fail with the message 'Not Owner' when I
try to use it?
5.3.7 What's new with remote mounts and the automounter?
! 5.3.8 Why are CDROM filenames all UPPERCASE with ;1 attached?
5.3.9 How can I start the PFS daemons automatically at system
startup?
5.3.10 Where can I get updated disktab entries for third-party
disks?
5.3.11 How can I determine whether a disk is bootable?
5.3.12 How do I defragment my filesystems?
5.4 Display
5.4.1 How do I define a new terminal type?
5.4.2 How can I change the video mode on my workstation?
5.5 Kernel Configuration
5.5.1 How can I tell if I have a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel?
5.5.2 How do I determine if a system supports a 32 and/or 64-bit
kernel?
+ 5.5.3 Where can I find detailed documentation of the various kernel
parameters?
5.6 Monitors, Diagnostics, and Performance
5.6.1 How can I look at what my system is doing?
5.6.2 What happened to the sysdiag command?
5.6.3 How can I improve overall system performance?
5.7 Networking and Communications
5.7.1 How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
5.7.2 How can I track network packets?
5.7.3 How to get the MAC address for a particular network
interface?
5.7.4 Is there a Transport Level Interface (TLI) interface to
TCP on HP-UX?
5.7.5 How do I disable IP Forwarding?
5.7.6 Why is ifconfig giving me errors when I try to configure
my LAN?
5.7.7 How do I change the hostname, IP address, DNS Server, etc?
5.7.8 How do I determine the speed and duplexity of my network
interface?
5.7.9 How do I display all active Internet (TCP and UDP)
connections?
5.7.10 Can multiple IP addresses be configured on one interface?
5.7.11 How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
5.7.12 Where can I get STREAMS for HP-UX?
! 5.7.13 What version of BIND (named) comes with HP-UX?
! 5.7.14 What version of sendmail comes with HP-UX?
! 5.7.15 What version of NFS comes with HPUX?
5.7.16 What is the difference between automount and AutoFS?
5.7.17 Can I configure multiple network interfaces on the same
subnet?
5.7.18 Does HP-UX come with a DHCP server?
! 5.7.19 Is there a port management tool / firewall for HP-UX?
5.8 Peripheral Devices
5.8.1 How do I use the floppy drive on my HP-UX workstation?
5.8.2 How can I format a floppy under HP-UX?
5.8.3 How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
5.8.4 How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
5.8.5 Do I need to terminate the internal SCSI on a 700?
5.8.6 How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation's CD-ROM drive?
5.8.7 How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on
a
700?
5.8.8 How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
5.8.9 What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
5.8.10 Is there a trackball for the 700?
5.8.11 What keyboards and mice are compatible with HP9000
workstations?
! 5.8.12 How do I change the keyboard type (e.g. from UK to German or
vice versa) after HP-UX is already installed?
5.8.13 How do I ascertain which device file corresponds to my CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drive?
5.9 Printers and Plotters
5.9.1 What happened to lpr?
5.9.2 Why does lpstat report the printer down, even though it's
not?
5.9.3 How can I turn off the LP banner page?
5.9.4 How can I print man pages without losing the formatting?
5.9.5 How can I view and print Postscript (.ps) files?
5.10 Process Management
5.10.1 How much memory can a process use?
5.10.2 Why do my processes keep dying at 64 MB memory usage?
5.10.3 How do I set per-process limits?
5.10.4 How can I tell what files, ports, etc.. a process has open?
+ 5.10.5 How can I get the ps command to display more than 64
characters of process command lines?
5.11 Routine Tasks
5.11.1 How can I track log files and core files?
5.11.2 What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp and /var/tmp?
5.12 Software Management
5.12.1 General Software Management
5.12.1.1 Where can I find out more about Software Distributor
(SD-UX)?
5.12.1.2 How can I tell what products have been loaded on my
system?
5.12.1.3 How do I safely remove software from my system?
5.12.1.4 How is the unique node ID used for licensing
determined?
5.12.1.5 What is Ignite-UX?
5.12.2 Patch Management
5.12.2.1 Where do I get HP-UX patches?
5.12.2.2 How can I list all installed patches?
5.12.2.3 How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
5.12.2.4 How do I get rid of these old 10.x patches since I
upgraded to 11.x?
5.12.2.5 How can I install multiple patches, without having to
reboot more than once?
5.12.2.6 How do I configure swlist to not display superseded
patches?
5.12.2.7 What is the naming convention used for HP-UX patch
names?
5.12.2.8 Where can I get OpenView patches?
5.13 Time
5.13.1 How can I change the timezone?
5.13.2 How can I print yesterday's or tomorrow's date?
5.13.3 How can I convert a timestamp (seconds since the Epoch) to a
date/time string?
5.13.4 What is the purpose of the 'timezone' and 'dst' kernel
parameters?
5.14 Users and Groups
5.14.1 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
5.14.2 How can I set up group-based FTP access?
5.14.3 Has /etc/logingroup functionality changed in 11.x?
5.15 X-Windows and CDE
5.15.1 X Window System (X11)
5.15.1.1 Where can I get X11R6?
5.15.1.2 Where can I get the missing X11 header files?
5.15.1.3 How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
5.15.1.4 How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
5.15.1.5 How can I change the title in my hpterm titlebar?
5.15.1.6 Why do my terminal windows keep going away by
themselves?
5.15.1.7 How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
5.15.1.8 What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?
5.15.1.9 My screen is wedged. What should I do?
5.15.1.10 How can I get an X app to come up in an alternate
workspace?
5.15.2 Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
5.15.2.1 What happened to VUE?
5.15.2.2 How do I start/stop/reset CDE (dtlogin)?
5.15.2.3 How can I enable/disable CDE (dtlogin)?
5.15.2.4 Why does id/groups not show secondary groups in
dtterm/CDE?
5.15.2.5 How can I improve CDE's performance?
5.15.2.6 Is there a CDE FAQ?
5.15.2.7 When I log on to CDE, I want certain applications to
automatically start. How can this be done ?
5.15.2.8 How do I get cut-n-paste to work correctly with CDE?
5.15.2.9 Why do NCD X-terminals hang when trying to connect via
XDMCP to an HP-UX 10.20 host running CDE?
6. DEVELOPMENT
6.1 General
6.1.1 What threads support is provided?
6.1.2 What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
6.1.3 Where can I find a list of all available system calls?
6.1.4 How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
6.1.5 Why is syslog() call not doing what i want it to?
6.1.6 How can I get C programs to automatically generate stack
dumps?
6.1.7 HP C++ email discussion lists
6.1.8 HP-UX development email discussion lists
6.2 Compiling and Linking
6.2.1 Why is the default C compiler brain-dead?
6.2.2 How do I make Perl on HP-UX?
6.2.3 How do I deal with "too many defines"?
6.2.4 Why do I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with
gcc?
6.2.5 Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI
mode?
6.2.6 Why do I get the error "*Initialization*:1: missing
token-sequence in `#assert'" when I compile with gcc?
6.2.7 How can I detect the HP-UX version at compile time?
6.3 Porting
! 6.3.1 Porting from an Earlier Release of HP-UX
6.3.2 Porting from Other Platforms (Solaris, AIX, etc..)
6.3.3 How do I know if binaries built on a one release of HP-UX are
compatible with a different release of HP-UX?
6.4 Tools
6.4.1 Where can I get Interviews for HP-UX?
6.4.2 Is there a disassembler included with HP-UX?
7. APPS AND UTILS
7.1 Freeware
7.1.1 HP Freeware
7.1.1.1 Patches
7.1.1.2 Drivers
7.1.1.3 I heard there is a new ftpd available. Where do I get
it?
7.1.1.4 HPRC FTP Site
+ 7.1.1.5 GNOME
7.1.2 Non-HP Freeware
! 7.1.2.1 The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX
7.1.2.2 InterWorks FTP site
7.1.2.3 Netperf
7.1.2.4 SLIP and CSLIP
7.1.2.5 PPP
7.1.2.6 SMTP
7.1.2.7 POP and IMAP
7.1.2.8 Sudo
7.1.2.9 Ntalk
7.1.2.10 TTCP
7.1.2.11 Free SCSI utilities for HP-UX workstations
7.1.2.12 PSCREEN/uX
7.1.2.13 GNU software
! 7.1.2.14 Web browsers
7.1.2.15 Miscellaneous freeware
7.1.2.16 RealAudio Player
7.1.2.17 CD Burning Software
7.2 Shareware
7.3 Commercial Software
7.3.1 HP Commercial Software
7.3.1.1 Where can I find release histories for various HP
software products?
+ 7.3.1.2 Where can I find a list of all applications that are
available for HP-UX?
7.3.2 Non-HP Commercial Software
7.3.2.1 Interex FastStart Toolbox
7.3.2.2 Is there anything remotely like the Apollo DM editor
available?
8. MISCELLANEOUS
8.1 How can I find the HP-UX equivalent for a given
Solaris/AIX/etc.. command?
8.2 What do I need to do to make my HP-UX system Year 2000
compliant?
8.3 How do I boot into single user mode?
8.4 How can I send mail to an MPE/iX HPDESK address?
8.5 How can I limit core files?
8.6 How do I disable the Caps Lock key?
8.7 Why does my Korn shell login hang?
8.8 How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
8.9 How can I turn off quota checking?
8.10 Why can't I start Aserver?
8.11 How can I get a daemon to successfully start from an rc script?
8.12 How do I convert the uname string to a model string?
8.13 Is Perl included with HP-UX?
8.14 Why can't I type an '@' character?
8.15 Why can't I get my machine into boot admin mode?
8.16 What happened to "less"?
8.17 What should go in my PATH and MANPATH environment variables?
8.18 Why does the 10.x/11.x cksum command produce a different
checksum than the 9.x cksum command?
8.19 Can I run Linux on an HP9000 system?
8.20 Can I run *BSD on an HP9000 system?
8.21 What happened to /usr/local? What are these /usr/contrib
and /opt directories?
8.22 Is it OK to change root's shell?
8.23 Why does HP-UX 10 generate copious "Sti_save" syslog messages?
8.24 How can I tell which kernel was booted?
8.25 What is the equivalent of ldd under HP-UX?
8.26 How do I configure a program to automatically start up or
shutdown when the system starts up or shuts down?
8.27 How can I do regular expression matching?
8.28 How can I play MP3s?
8.29 How can I use audio on HP-UX 10.x/11.x without a network?
8.30 Is there a tool to trace system calls?
! 8.31 What OS capacity limits exist?
8.32 How can I determine how much RAM my system has?
8.33 What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
8.34 How do I find the clock speed of my system's CPU(s)?
8.35 How can I view/print PDF files?
8.36 How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
8.37 Is the Euro supported?
8.38 How can I view various Windows-format files (Word docs,
Excel spreadsheets, etc..) on an HP-UX system?
8.39 How is the system load average, as reported by the uptime
and top commands, calculated?
8.40 Where can I get HP9000 firmware updates?
8.41 Where can I look up HP part numbers?
8.42 How can I create a /dev/zero special file?
8.43 Why is tail's output truncated for large amounts of input?
! 8.44 What commands or scripts exist for gathering and summarizing
system information?
8.45 How can I convert numbers from one base to another?
8.46 What are the machine ID and serial number used for?
8.47 How can I tell what commands SAM is executing under the hood?
8.48 How can I view a file in octal or hexadecimal?
+ 8.49 How do I configure the kernel to write corefiles as core.?
+ 8.50 How do I analyze a system crash dump?
! 8.51 Is HP-UX free for non-profit users (students, hobbyists, etc..)?
+ 8.52 Where can I obtain a free HP-UX shell account?
! 8.53 How do I grep for an exact word as with "grep -w" in Linux?
9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
9.1 Contributors
9.2 Trademarks
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Subject: 3. GENERAL INFORMATION
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Subject: 3.1 What does HP-UX stand for?
Added: 04/16/01
HP-UX is short for Hewlett-Packard UNIX[R].
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Subject: 3.2 Where can I find a good overview of HP-UX?
Updated: 08/23/01
For starters, there is the HP-UX homepage:
o
Also, check out the HP-UX page at OSdata.com:
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If you have an HP-UX 11.x system, read the introduction(9) manpage. It
contains a lot of good background information.
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Subject: 3.3 What is the release history of HP-UX?
Updated: 12/29/03
Rel Date Major Features Introduced
==========================================================================
1.0 '83?
1.1 '83?
1.2 '83?
2.0 '83?
2.1 '84?
2.2 '84?
3.0 '84?
3.1 '85?
3.2 '85?
4.0 '85?
5.0 2H/85
5.05 '86?
5.1 '88
5.2 '89?
5.21 '89?
5.3 04/89
6.0 '89
6.0.1 '89
6.0.2 '89
6.1 '89
6.2 '89
6.3 '89
6.5 02/89
7.00 mid '90 Motif[R]
7.01 '89
7.02 '90
7.03 <08/89
7.04 '90
7.05 '90
7.06 '90
7.07 '90
7.08 '90
7.09 '90
8.00 01/91
8.01 '91
8.02 04/92
8.03 '91
8.04 '91
8.05 07/91
8.06 '92
8.07 '92
9.00 07/92 PA7100 support, POSIX[TM] shell, VUE 3.0, fastlinks,
ioscan(1M), model(1)
9.01 '93 added hardware support
9.02 '93 added hardware support
9.03 '93 added hardware support, including support for floppy
disks
9.04 11/93 added hardware support
9.05 11/93 added hardware support
9.06 '94
9.07 '94 Multi-Buffered-X, Single-Logical-Screen
9.08 '94
9.09 '94
9.10 03/95 10.x compatibility
10.00 03/95 SVR4 filesys layout, NFS, SD-UX, XNTP, traceroute(1M)
10.01 07/95 JFS(v2)
10.10 02/96 large filesys/physmem/dsize, NLS, SLVM, UNIX95, CDE(1.0),
DHCP, perl(4)
10.20 08/96 JFSv3, large files/uids, MPC, RARP
10.30 08/97 kernel (POSIX) threads, NFS PV3, streams TCP/IP, ASE,
PPP,
Y2K compliance
11.00 11/97 64-bit OS, DLKM, iCOD, CDE 2.1
11.10 03/00 SCA, JFS 3.3, 128-CPU, AutoFS, new ftpd
11.11 11/00 OEs, SuperDome, IO board OLAR, dynamic tunables, TCP NFS,
Linux APIs & ABIs, perl5, JRE(1.2.2.04), X11R6.2
11.20 06/01 IPF, BTL DLKM, kernel logging, VxVM
11.22 06/02 Itanium 2, MxN threads, 64-CPU, kernel config GUI, system
inventory manager, IPv6, IPSec, CPU/RAM board OLAR (*)
11.23 '03? PA & IPF, select Tru64 components, 128-CPU (@), limited
self-healing & self-tuning (@)
11.24? '04? TruCluster (@)
11.30 '05? complete self-healing & self-tuning (@)
* Source:
@ Source:
Hardware Processor HP-UX
Platform Architecture Releases
==========================================================================
Series 100 Motorola 680x0? n/a
Series 200 Motorola 680x0 2.x, 5.1
Series 300 Motorola 680x0 6.x, 7.x, 8.0/01/05/07, 9.0/01/03/10
Series 400 Motorola 680x0 7.x, 8.0/01/05/07
Series 500 HP Focus 1.x, 5.x
Series 600 HP PA-RISC 2.x, 3.x, 7.0, 8.0/02/06, 9.0/02/04
Series 700 HP PA-RISC 7.03/05/09, 8.0/01/05/07,
9.01/03/05/07/09, 10.x, 11.x
Series 800 HP PA-RISC 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 7.0, 8.0/02/06,
9.0/02/04, 10.x, 11.0/10/11/23
Itanium Intel IPF 11.2x
HP9000 Series 100 machines did not run HP-UX. They ran HPL, BASIC or
Pascal. These languages were usually stored on disks and loaded from
there, but you could also get the languages on plug-in ROM cards.
Series 400 machines were basically HP9000/Apollo hybrids. The boot PROM
contained support for two different modes - one for DomainOS (the native
Apollo operating system) and one for HP-UX.
Series 900 is the HP3000 family of business servers. These machines all
run MPE/iX, not HP-UX. For more information on HP3000 and MPE/iX, see:
o
o
o
s300 6.5 and s800 3.1 were both replaced by a supposedly converged HP-UX
7.0, but, in fact, there were significant differences, and not just
because of the IO architectues.
HP-UX releases <= 10.20 have been removed from the HP corporate price
list
(ie, they can no longer be purchased).
HP-UX releases <= 10.00 have been classified as obsolete (ie, no longer
supported by HP). 10.01/10/20 will be supported through June 30, 2003.
For futher info on HP software discontinuance & obsolescense dates, see:
o
o
HP-UX 10.30 was a limited release intended for early access for 32-bit
kernel threads development and testing, prior to the release of HP-UX
11.00. For this reason, it was discontinued and obsoleted fairly
soon after the release of 11.00.
HP-UX 11.10 was a limited release and is supported only on V2500 SCA and
V2600 SCA servers. Prior to the release of 11.11, 11.10 came
preinstalled
on these systems. It was never available separately.
HP-UX 11.11 and later is marketed as "HP-UX 11i." The "i" stands for
"Internet" and is meant to convey that the OS is Internet-ready. Here
are the mappings from 11i versions to HP-UX versions as reported by
uname:
11i version Uname version CPU arch. Description
==========================================================================
1.0 11.11 PA OE Release
1.5 11.20 IPF Itanium Release
1.6 11.22 IPF Consolidation Release
2.0 11.23 IPF Consolidation Release
2T 11.24? PA+IPF Independence Release
3.0 11.30 PA+IPF
TruCluster/Self-Healing/Tuning Release
For a release history of HP-UX that includes discontinuance and
obsolescence dates for the various releases, see:
o
For more information on the various HP-UX releases, refer to:
o
A roadmap is available that outlines how Tru64 UNIX will be gradually
merged into upcoming HP-UX releases:
o
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Subject: 3.4 Where can I find definitions of various HP-UX terms?
Added: 04/16/01
Refer to the glossary(9) manpage.
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Subject: 3.5 What is HP's address and phone number?
Updated: 10/09/01
The address of HP Corporate Offices is:
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185
and the phone numbers are:
o 650.857.1501 (8am-5pm PST)
o Fax: 650.857.5518
For general product information call:
o 800.752.0900 (6am-5pm PST)
For information on ordering HP manuals and supplies, call Parts Direct
Ordering toll-free in the United States at:
o 800.227.8164
or visit the HP Parts homepage at:
o
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Subject: 3.6 How does HP-UX rank among other enterprise Unixes?
Added: 06/17/02
The latest D.H. Brown report entitled "2002 UNIX Function Review" ranks
HP-UX 11i #1, over Solaris 8, AIX 5.1, and Tru64 5.1, in all five
categories - reliability, availability and serviceability; Internet and
Web application services; directory and security services; systems
management; and scalability.
The press release is at:
o
The report itself is available at:
o
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Subject: 3.7 How does the Compaq merger affect the HP-UX roadmap?
Added: 06/17/02
HP and Compaq both offered UNIX operating systems: HP-UX and Compaq Tru64
UNIX.
Decision: HP-UX will be the long-term UNIX for the new HP. Tru64 UNIX has
some very advanced features -- including clustering and file systems --
and some of those will be integrated into HP-UX over time.
Rationale: HP-UX has a much larger market share and installed base of
customers. It also has much broader ISV support than Tru64 UNIX.
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Subject: 4. RESOURCES
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Subject: 4.1 FAQs
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Subject: 4.1.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
Updated: 10/09/01
An ASCII text version of this FAQ is available at:
o
An HTML version of this FAQ is available at:
o
A Japanese version of this FAQ is available from CUA (HP Computer Users
Association); send mail to . The original translation
was done by Masataka Isoya . Subsequent
translations have been done by Kumiko Watanabe.
o
There is also a legacy version of this FAQ, which contains information
on HP-UX 9.x and earlier. This is available at:
o (ASCII)
o (HTML)
Note, the legacy FAQ is no longer updated. It is archived for the benefit
of those still running old versions of HP-UX.
If all else fails, contact the maintainer.
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Subject: 4.1.2 What other HP-UX-related FAQs exist?
Updated: 11/10/03
There is an HP-UX 11i FAQ at:
o
There is a HP-UX on Itanium FAQ at:
o
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