GNV
GNU's Not VMS!
Links:
Getting Started and Installing GNV
Mailing Lists:
gnv-help for help setting up and using GNV
gnv-develop for developers of GNV
gnv-announce for annoucements of new versions and updates
GNV is a GNU based project, delivering a Unix-like environment for OpenVMS. It is intended to provide the important subset of Unix/Linux/POSIX necessary to port UNIX OpenSource software to OpenVMS. GNV consists of a Unix like shell environment and many of the tools and utilities common to Unix shell environments.
Many OpenSource software packages ship a source tarball. When extracted, the software is built by running the 'configure' script, followed by a 'make'. This procedure examines features of the Unix system you are running on, and builds the sofware package accordingly. This process may also work on an OpenVMS system, using the BASH shell provided by GNV. It is a goal of the GNV project to improve the porting of such OpenSource projects to OpenVMS.
The GNV project is supported by HP (Hewlett Packard). However, it is an OpenSource project, with developers both inside and outside HP. GNV is hosted by SourceForge.NET. Here you can find the source (mostly for developers) and binary distribution files. You might start at the GNV project page.
GNV is available for both OpenVMS Alpha and Integrity (IA64) platforms. The latest GNV kit is version V1.6-2. See the Getting Started and Installing GNV page for more information, including a pointer to the kits.
The latest kits, and additional information is also available at the OpenSource page of the OpenVMS website:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/opensource/opensource.html
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