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UnixWare 7

UnixWare has a monolithic kernel and stands out for reliability, stability and scalability. Depending on application purpose gives installations and licences for the Data Center, Enterprise, Departmental, Business, Messaging and Base Edition. Servers with UnixWare were offered by Compaq Computer Corp. in 1997. In the same year UnixWare 7.0.1 on the CeBIT got a prize as the best operating system.

With SCO Merge of PLATINUM Solutions, Inc. brings UnixWare a virtual environment for DOS and Windows 3.11/95. Periphery devices are only restrictedly available for Host system in SCO Merge. Windows is supported in version 95 and higher in the current version. Extensive tools, the enclosed Fasttrack web server and Webtop make UnixWare interesting also for a Cluster system. Visionfs is part of Tarantella by Caldera since the take-over of SCO.

SCO started the SCO Free UNIX action with a free licence for not commercial users in August 1996. OpenServer 5.0.4 and UnixWare 2.1.2 operating system were offered at delivery costs, the action was stopped after UnixWare 7.1.1 at the end of 1999.

Update: The OpenServer and UnixWare technology has been part of Caldera since February 2001 which renamed this business division in SCO Group.

Update May 2004: UnixWare version 7.1.4 is published, primarily smaller and middle enterprises are target group. Server applications are File and Print services, mail server, DHCP, web server, firewall, proxy server as well as relational databases. The Small Business Edition supports 1 user (B), 1 CPU (C) and up to 1 gbyte main memory (A).
- Base Edition 1 (B), 1 (C), 2 GByte (A)
- Business Edition 10 (B), 4 (C), 4 GByte (A)
- Departmental Edition 25 (B), 4 (C), 8 GByte (A)
- Enterprise Edition 50 (B), 6 (C), 16 GByte (A)
- Datacenter Edition 150 (B), 8 (C), 32 GByte (A)

Hardware support
- Intel Xeon Hyperthreading architecture
- improved USB and USB 2.0 printer support
- improved PCI serial and IDE driver software support for ATA devices with more than 128 gbyte

Extended security and network services
- VPN support, IPsec (secure IP) Protokoll
- updated Network Time Protocol (NTP) server
- pluggable Authentication moduls (Pam) & Name Service Switch (NSS) support
- updated SSL and SSH components

New supported application
- Java 2 SE version 1.4.2 runtime environment
- MySQL 3.23.49 and PostgreSQL 7.4.2
- Soap & XML toolkits for the development of web services
- native UnixWare version of the Mozilla 1.2.1 browser

SCOx of web services Components
- Apache 2.0.49 web server
- Tomcat App server 4.1.30
- Perl 5.8.3
- PHP 4.3.5

Network, email and administration
- Samba 3.0
- sendmail 8.12.9
- Emergency Recovery support for IDE, USB and SCSI writer
- improved SCOAdmin DNS manager
- improved SCOAdmin Storage management

Standard components
- SCO Adv. File & Print Server 4.0.1
- SCO VisionFS 3.0, integration in Windows network, access to shares
- SCO TermLite 1.0.7
- Java Developer Kit 1.1.7b
- SCO Merge 4.1.1, virtual environment for DOS and Windows 95
- SCO online help
- Netscape Fasttrack Web server and Netscape browser 4.61
- Novell NetWare services 4.10 a
- The Webtop package 1.3, remote administration of the system
- LKP (Linux Kernel Personality Technology), use of Linux programs possible
- LAE (Linux application emulator)
- SCO "Skunkware"

Installation
- textbased and menu controlled installation
- different HBA (host bus adapter), IDE, SCSI, RAID, Hot Plug
- fine grained licensed program
- IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, NFS
- CDE desktop
- scoadmin (administration)
- X11 graphic server
- pkgadd for a manual installation
- /etc/vfstab for Mount points
- Online help about http://localhost: 8458/ reachable
- Remote administration about http://localhost/webtop/ possible

System environment
- dynamic Kernel
- Intel 32-bit, 64-bit
- 64-bit of operating system
- vxfs, Veritas advanced journaling file system
- 128 gbyte to 1 tbyte partitions
- up to 64 gbyte RAM
- SMP to 32 CPUs
- about 32 HBAs (bus systems) possible
EAFS, Extended Acer® fast file system, standard file system
AFS, Acer fast file system, was Standard file system of UnixWare until 1991
HTFS, High Throughput file system up to 1 tbyte partition
DTFS, Compression file system
- Read/Write: s5, ufs, sfs (Secure file system), FAT, ISO9660

/ /bck /bin /ccs /CD-ROM_1 /config /dev /dev/swap /dev/dump /Disk_A /etc /export /home /home2 /install /lib /mnt /opt /proc /sbin /share /shlib /stand /system /tmp /u95 /unix /usr /var

root directory mount point for CD-ROM device files paging area dump of the RAM at system crash mount point for floppy User directory for user account Boot file system Directory for temporary files Installation and administration data