[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/10/2020 3:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-03-10, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2020-03-10 13:21:08 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>> Think about how Linux is much more functional and cleaner underneath
>>> when compared to the original versions of Unix, yet can still compile
>>> and run earlier Unix application level source code.
>>
>> I'd put something newer underneath than the Linux kernel, if y'all
>> decide to start over.
> 
> I'm not suggesting that this new operating system be run on top of Linux.
> 
> For one thing, any new operating system would need to be able to support
> VMS style DLM capabilities in the kernel as well as VMS style clustering,
> also in the kernel.

I believe that Redhat DLM and GFS/GFS2 run in kernel.

:-)

Arne