DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 27, 2002 @11:48AM from the dreams-of-shells-past dept.

Pazuzues writes "I found something that you could say peaked my interest. It seems Symantec (purchasers of former company Quarterdeck) has release DeskView/X into public domain and can be downloaded now. DesqView/X was a GUI and OS extender that installed into DOS very much like MS Windows does. This little GUI can run X-Windows and MS Windows 3.x software and can even gateway serve MS Windows applications to remote X terminals. It was way ahead of its time and is a pretty decent toy to play with if you have a old 486 laying around. Anyways there is a petition being started that is petitioning Symantec to release the source code as OpenSource. I think this is a really good idea and could possiably help alot of other existing projects like WINE for example. It can load X and rexec X apps with 16mb RAM for Pete sakes!"

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Re:DesqView was really cool. by uradu · 2002-01-27 15:10 · Score: 1, Flamebait

> I was S000 37337!
> Man I wish I had Linux 2.4 and Debian back then ! :)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the really 7337 hackers back then were busy writing Amiga demos (and zillion disk copier progs). Many of them went on to become part of the first generation of Linux hackers. The closest thing to the Linux community (in terms of size and enthusiasm) back then was the Amiga community. The only ones bothering with the PC were Leisure Suit Larry addicts.

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