Comments on: Fun with OpenServer and Merge

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:53:36 +0000

In reply to Lubo.

Have you checked if VueScan supports it? They claim support for 1204 different models of Canon scanner. I have a non-networked windows 7 vm for one scanner that’s gone unsupported by the vendor, but VueScan supports it fully on all platforms.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/canon.html

By: Uli

Uli — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:45:00 +0000

In reply to Malcolm. I accidentally posted this under this article. I meant MergePro.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:15:36 +0000

In reply to Uli. Are you referring to Win4Lin/Merge or Win4LinPro/MergePro? Have you seen these products host an NT-based Windows and store the Windows file system in a plain directory?

By: Uli

Uli — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:07:29 +0000

MergePro / Win4Lin had some adventages compared to plain qemu.
The Windows installation is nearly automated and you can access the windows file system from Unix since MergePro uses a plain directory instead of a binary hard disk image file as a file storage.
Also there are some performance improvements compared to the free qemu.

There was also Win4BSD and Win4Solaris which were the same product but for other Operating Systems.

By: Lubo

Lubo — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:22:37 +0000

In reply to tenox. Knowing SCO, especially in the Darryl whatever his useless name was era, that their site doesn't have much software is NOT at all surprising. He wanted to sue the world, and fired the programmers and enginneers, because "they don't help me sue!" OK I'm extrapolating his thoughts, but IT IS TRUE he sued, and they made stuff he could never understand or sell or use in a million years. LOL at SCO, gone forever and NOT missed by anyone.

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 06:21:14 +0000

In reply to Uli. Yes I actually have a mirror of the whole sco ftp site. Surprisingly it's not that big. I want to try a bunch of other products like Tarantella, Reliant HA and NonStop Cluster.

By: tenox

tenox — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:21:19 +0000

In reply to Christian. From what I seen so far that is not true at all. Win4Lin uses KQEMU kernel module and some components (Bios?) of Bochs but I don't think it's QEMU. It's definitely based on the old Merge.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:41:32 +0000

Win4Lin Pro was basically a slightly beefed-up QEMU. Is there a chance that MergePro is as well?

By: Uli

Uli — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:26:00 +0000

In reply to Uli.

You can still download most SCO products at their FTP server.
There were also products such as an IDE based on Eclipse and Vintella (aka SCO Authentication) which is a solution to integrate SCO Operating Systems into Active Directory domains.

If you haven’t yet also check out their Skunkware open source packages.
The FTP server provides ported apps that aren’t available from the Skunkware 2006 CD or from patchck.

By: Uli

Uli — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:19:51 +0000

In reply to tenox.

Take a look at this page.
You can still download a time limited trial version at SCO’s ftp server.
http://sco.com/products/merge/

As far as I remember if you wanna use Windows XP it works only with Windows XP cdroms until SP2, a disc with SP3 preinstalled doesn’t work.