samba - Mar 2021 - Ask not for whom the bell tolls HPUX. It tolls for thee..

OK, I've gotten approval and removed the code
for Tru64 UNIX in Samba (last supported release
2012).

Now I'd like to ask about a harder topic.

HPUX :-).

Wikipedia says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Versions

"the latest revision being B.11.31.1805,[16] released in May 2018."

so it's still in support. Just. But it looks moribund
to me :-).

Is anyone still using it with Samba ? Does anyone
still care ?

Speak now or...

Jeremy.

Just out of curiosity, and not because I care about HP-UX, I dug a
little further and found:

This article [1] says:
> Support for HPE?s Itanium-powered Integrity servers, and HP-UX 11i v3, will
come to an end on December 31, 2025.
The HP-UX SUPPORT MATRIX [2] confirms that, noting:

- HP-UX 11i v3 obsolescence date (last date software offered for
sale): HPE Integrity: through at least 31-Dec-2023
- End of factory support: HP 9000: through 31-Mar-2021; HPE Integrity:
through at least 31-Dec-2025
- Footnote 4: HP-UX 11i v3 will be under Standard Support through at
least December 31, 2025. Mature Product Support without sustaining
engineering for HP-UX 11i v3 will start after Standard Support ends
and will be offered for a minimum of 3 years.

I don't care, but HPE might. But I'm not sure if Samba does :-)

Jonathon

[1]: https://mainframedebate.com/2020/07/21/death-of-hp-ux-and-itanium/
[2]: https://psnow.ext.hpe.com/doc/4aa4-7673enw

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:55 PM Jeremy Allison via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> OK, I've gotten approval and removed the code
> for Tru64 UNIX in Samba (last supported release
> 2012).
>
> Now I'd like to ask about a harder topic.
>
> HPUX :-).
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Versions
>
> "the latest revision being B.11.31.1805,[16] released in May
2018."
>
> so it's still in support. Just. But it looks moribund
> to me :-).
>
> Is anyone still using it with Samba ? Does anyone
> still care ?
>
> Speak now or...
>
> Jeremy.
>
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Just declare it done, and see if any one screams?? I know the financial 
firm I worked for 25 years, retired HPUX only as Intel/AMD 
virtualization started to dominate the virtual scape, so they had HPUX 
still running as late as 2013.? Also, if there are unaddressed, 
significant, CVEs, that pretty much kills an OS now days.

-DD

On 03/19/2021 10:54, Jeremy Allison via samba wrote:
> OK, I've gotten approval and removed the code
> for Tru64 UNIX in Samba (last supported release
> 2012).
>
> Now I'd like to ask about a harder topic.
>
> HPUX :-).
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Versions
>
> "the latest revision being B.11.31.1805,[16] released in May
2018."
>
> so it's still in support. Just. But it looks moribund
> to me :-).
>
> Is anyone still using it with Samba ? Does anyone
> still care ?
>
> Speak now or...
>
> Jeremy.
>