Tru64 & Digital Unix Supported Versions

The Eagle-Eyed among you will have noticed that HP has released a new PatchKit for Tru64 UNIX V5.1B. Its kit #8 :

T64V51BB29AS0008-20100821.tar (available from itrc)

and it transforms V5.1B into V5.1B-6.

FreeAXP and Avanti have been tested with Pk8, and it runs beautifully.

So, we have added [b:]Tru64 UNIX V5.1B-6[/b:] to the list of 'officially supported' versions.

John M<hr>

Via the good offices and generosity of a user in S.E. Asia, we've been able to test another member of the V3.2 familiy - [b:]Digital UNIX V3.2G[/b:]. It installs happily, and runs very contentedly on both FreeAXP and Avanti. In common with other V3 releases it uses the De435 NIC which FreeAXP has supported since summer 2010.

So now we're up to 9 separate Tru64 releases qualified to run on FreeAXP :

[b:]V3.2C, V3.2G
V4.0D, V4.0F, V4.0G
V5.0A, V5.1, V5.1A
V5.1B - V5.1B-6[/b:]

In addition, V3.2D/E and V4.0E should run without problems since they use the V3.2C or V4.0D kernels respectively. Which only leaves us V4.0 and V4.0B to test .... so if anyone has a copy ..... <img src='../images/smiley/cool.gif' alt='smiley'>

John M

With the co-operation of HP themselves, and also by the kind generosity of a user in Portugal, we have been enabled to test and qualify a further two releases of Digital UNIX : [b:]V4.0E[/b:] and [b:]V4.0B[/b:].

As with previous qualification tests, FreeAXP hosted them both flawlessly, and neither release provided any nasty surprises. So now FreeAXP supports a total of eleven different Tru64/Digital UNIX releases plus the current two supported V5.1B versions from HP.

[b:]V3.2C, V3.2G
V4.0B, V4.0D, V4.0E, V4.0F, V4.0G
V5.0A, V5.1, V5.1A, V5.1B[/b:] and also [b:]V5.1B-5[/b:] & [b:]V5.1B-6[/b:]

[2023 edit]
FreeAXP/Avanti has been now been qualified with [b:]V4.0[/b:] and [b:]V4.0A[/b:]

John M<hr>