Re: Norton Utilities for Linux ?

Aaron Tiensivu (mojomofo@ctechnix.com)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:15:16 -0400


> 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.

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