Short Take: SCO to open system activity software
Santa Cruz Operation will release its System Activity Reporter software to the open source community, the company said. Starnix will port the software from SCO's UnixWare operating system to Linux and BSD Unix, then the software will be renamed OpenSAR and released under the Mozilla Public License. SAR, the first piece of Unix System V software to be released as open source, lets system administrators monitor the performance of a Unix computer.
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Starnix will port the software
from SCO's UnixWare operating system to Linux and BSD Unix, then the
software will be renamed OpenSAR and released under the Mozilla Public
License. SAR, the first piece of Unix System V software to be released as
open source, lets system administrators monitor the performance of a Unix
computer.