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Beyond Linux distributions, compliance with the California Digital Age Assurance Act (#AB1043) is going to be interesting for all sorts of other platforms, including VSI #OpenVMS

TronNerd82 Mar 1

I've been playing around with #OpenVMS for the past two days now, and I gotta say, it's pretty cool.

I have had to get over some Unix-isms in order to understand how to navigate the environment, but I think I'm gonna keep this virtual machine I got.

Too bad it's not #FOSS, though about 20 years ago, someone did attempt to re-implement it, called #FreeVMS. I don't think it ever got very far.

That's a shame, because I think a FOSS VMS-like OS would be awesome.

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Stephen Hoffman Feb 14

@grawity You’ve probably seen the (explosive!) HP OpenVMS “Disaster Proof” video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUwthF9x210

💥💥 💥💥

BTS: They had a thunderstorm rolling in during filming.

#openvms #digitalequipment #disasterrecovery #retrocomputing #boomtoday

OpenVMS Server - Disaster Proof in 13.71 seconds

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Stephen Hoffman Feb 13

@benjojo There’s an IPMI brute-force around, if that's not what you're doing here.

CVE-2013-4786

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04197764

This is reportedly unfixable on various HP servers.

“HPSBHF02981 rev.4 - HPE Integrated Lights-Out 2, 3, 4, 5 (iLO 2, iLO 3, iLO 4, and iLO 5) and HPE Superdome Flex RMC - IPMI 2.0 RCMP+ Authentication Remote Password Hash Vulnerability (RAKP)”

TL;DR: ask nicely for a weakly-hashed IPMI password, then crack it offline.

On at least some of these boxes, the iLO command that blocks this access:

MP:CM> sa -lanipmi d

#openvms #itanium #security #ipmi

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Kevin Karhan

Feb 9

@santi @muito_pelo @goosey propably because they want to renew interest amd potentially gain new licensees.

Not shure why anyone would choose #RiscOS in 2026 and it's "Cooperative Multitasking" but maybe a 'mature codebase' makes it more interesting. Similar to #OpenVMS ¹, #QNX ², #VxWorks ³ and #WindRiverLinux ⁴ trying to increase adoption by those that demand a more hardened and deterministic performing OS…

RISC OS - Wikipedia

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Graham Rossiter Jan 26

-> It's also worth noting the #OpenVMS distribution released this morning contains significantly more installed products than the previous distribution, as well as a version refresh. Here are screenshots for comparison.

Graham Rossiter Jan 26

Hooray! #OpenVMS Community X86_64 v9.2-3 (relicensed to 2027) has now been released by VSI. This is A Good Thing.

pflegende Jan 20

OpenVMS Bootcamp 2026 in Malmö (May 4–6)

#openVMS #DCL #VAX #k1840 #retrocomputing
🛡️ hardest OS ever 🛡️

openVMS Freunde um Erfurt, #Jena bitte melden!👋 ☕

OpenVMS Bootcamp 2026 in Malmö (May 4–6) Sweden.

3‑day event where OpenVMS users get together for technical sessions, real‑world use cases

first‑timer discount. Early bird pricing runs until February 28, and the

Call for Papers closes
on March 9.

More https://events.vmssoftware.com/bootcamp-malmo-2026

DCL practicing 🦊 available here in town. Call me DM.

Join us for our next Bootcamp in Malmö!

Join us for our next Bootcamp in Malmö in May 2026!

ArchiveOS Dec 20

RED – a screen editor for use with VT100’s. Considerable effort has been made to have RED operate efficiently in a heavy interactive environment. It’s syntax is similar to TECO’s. https://archiveapp.org/red/ #texteditor #vax #openvms

RED

Web site: www.decuslib.com/decus/vax85c/saostoic/red/ (not active) Category: Office Subcategory: Text Editors Platform: VAX/OpenVMS License: unknown Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Red (text editor) First…

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