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HaikuOS on Gerrit, OSNews on End of HP-UX
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HaikuOS ☛ The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 4
Welcome to most likely the last blog post of the year!
We continue our exploration of old change requests on the Gerrit code review tool that have been waiting for several years for someone to pick them up and get them merged. There are currently 350 commits awaiting review in the code review tool. The oldest one is now untouched since early 2019.
First of all, let’s look at updates for the changes from the previous blog post in the series: one of them has found a new owner, and DriveSetup may soon get its long awaited menu to read and write disk images to partitions!
In this and the next blog post we will be looking at changes that have been untouched since late may of 2021.
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OS News ☛ HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
It’s 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: HP-UX. Today is the day HPE puts the final nail in the coffin of their long-running UNIX operating system, marking the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux.