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<div align="center">
<img align="center" src="/skunkware/images/skunkware.png" style="width:643;height:116" alt="Skunkware" />
</div>
<h1 align="center">Historical Archive</h1>
<p>
<strong>
This site attempts to re-introduce the visitor to SCO Skunkware and
reconstruct portions of the Skunkware website. Please note that links to
downloadable packaged Skunkware software are no longer active and those
packages no longer maintained. This site offers solely historical curiosity
and wistful nostalgia.
</strong>
</p>
<h2 align="center" id="skunkware-time-portal">
<a href="/skunkware/index.html">Skunkware Time Portal</a>
</h2>
<div align="center" class="table-wrapper">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="text-align: left"><strong>Skunkware</strong>
<th style="text-align: center">
<th style="text-align: center">
<th style="text-align: center">
<th style="text-align: right"><strong>Releases</strong>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/Games/">Xenix Games Disk</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/94/index.html">Skunkware 2.0</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/95/index.html">Skunkware 5</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/96/index.html">Skunkware 96</a>
<td style="text-align: right"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/index.html">Skunkware 97</a>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/98/index.html">Skunkware 98</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/99/index.html">Skunkware 99</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/2000/index.html">Skunkware 2000</a>
<td style="text-align: center"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/index.html">Skunkware 7.1.1</a>
<td style="text-align: right"><a href="https://skunkware.dev/skunkware/2006/index.html">Skunkware 2006</a>
</table>
</div>
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>
These archives are largely the exact same documents preserved over the decades
by fastidious Skunkware fans and horders. Essentially, you will be entering
the 90s or early 2000's. The interwebs have changed a lot since then with
people and organizations moving their websites, changing their email
addresses, and generally acting like the 90s weren't perfect. As such, many of
the links in these archives are stale, non-existent, or have been turned into
porn sites. But, most of them just reference the Skunkware website which I
have tried to preserve so browsing is still fun but occassionally interrupted
with a 404.
</p>
<p>
See the <a href="https://skunkware.dev/releases">Releases Page</a> to visit
the illustrious Skunkware past.
</p>
<h2 id="what-is-skunkware">What Is Skunkware</h2>
<p>
From the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Skunkware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Wikipedia article on SCO Skunkware</a>:
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
<strong>
SCO Skunkware, often referred to as simply “Skunkware”, is a collection of
open-source software projects ported, compiled, and packaged for free
redistribution on SCO operating environments. SCO Skunkware packaged
components exist for SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, SCO OpenServer 5, SCO OpenServer
6, UnixWare 2, Caldera OpenLinux, Open UNIX 8, and UnixWare 7. SCO
Skunkware was an early pioneering effort to bring open source software
into the realm of business computing and, as such, provided an important
initial impetus to the acceptance and adoption of open source software in
the small and medium business market. An extensive SCO Skunkware download
area has been maintained since 1993 and SCO Skunkware components were
shipped with operating system distributions as far back as 1983 when Xenix
for the IBM XT was released by The Santa Cruz Operation. The annual SCO
Forum conference was a venue for the makers and users of SCO Skunkware to
meet and discuss its contents and ideas for future additions. Later
additional open source distributions for operating platforms such as the
FreeBSD Ports collection and the Solaris Freeware repository would lend
additional momentum to the adoption of open source in the business
community.
</strong>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
The term 'Skunkware' was coined by Dion Johnson as homage to the many
'Skunkworks' that sprung up at places like NASA and Lockheed. These were
unofficial, off-the-books, sometimes secret projects that engineers would
conduct, often leading to remarkable breakthroughs and discoveries due to the
unsupervised freedom they enjoyed.
</p>
<p>
Everett Rogers defined Skunkworks as an "enriched environment that is intended
to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine
organizational procedures." The term originated during World War II when the
P-80 Shooting Star was designed by Lockheed's Advanced Development Projects
Division in Burbank, California. A closely guarded incubator was set up in a
circus tent next to a plastics factory in Burbank. The strong smells that
wafted into the tent made the Lockheed R&D workers think of the
foul-smelling "Skonk Works" factory in Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip.
</p>
<p>Skunkware is a Skunkworks for Software.</p>
<h2 id="why-is-skunkware-historically-important">
Why is Skunkware Historically Important
</h2>
<p>
The 90s releases of SCO Skunkware were on a mountable CD-ROM which contained
an HTTP server and HTML documents with links to SCO Custom+ installable
packages.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
NCSA Mosaic</a>
had been licensed by SCO shortly after its first release in 1993 and was used
by Skunkware as the primary interface to browse the mounted CD-ROM. The CD
also contained a Custom+ installable Skunkware SSO (Software Storage Object)
which installed the Skunkware website in `/usr/local` on the system along with
the HTTPD server which could then be used to run a Skunkware website from your system.
</p>
<p>
In those days the Web was just getting started in the medium and small
business sectors, SCO's primary market. Further SCO controlled over 80%
of the Unix on Intel market. Most medium and small businesses, if they had a
computer, had one of the commodity off-the-shelf "inexpensive" personal
computers that IBM had popularized. Much of that market was running an SCO
operating system. SCO had the first licensed distribution of a web browser
bundled with the operating system and that system came with a CD-ROM you could
use to easily create a website and get on the Web - using Skunkware.
</p>
<p>
In addition to facilitating medium and small business entry to the Internet,
Skunkware introduced this sector to open source software. The primary function
of Skunkware was to deliver precompiled, preconfigured, packaged software
components that were easy to install and use. These were all freely
distributable open source software the Skunkware team had worked on and
provided free of charge. Even though, at that time, the GNU Project had been
around for a decade, it didn't have a kernel so it was incomplete with no
operating system. Linux had just been released in 1991 and by 1994 still had
very little market share other than hobbyists. SCO distributed a proprietary
operating system but embraced open standards and incorporated many open source
projects in their products. SCO Skunkware augmented SCO operating systems with
hundreds of open source projects including an environment tailored for open
source development.
</p>
<p>
In this way, Skunkware served as a significant influence in popularizing open
source software in the business community and providing that community with
tools to leverage the burgeoning power of open source and the Internet.
</p>
<h2 id="release-history">Release History</h2>
<p>
Archives of the SCO Skunkware releases are gradually being added to this
website as time permits. Check the
<a href="https://skunkware.dev/releases">Releases Page</a> to take a stroll
through the Skunkware gardens of the past.
</p>
<p>
SCO Skunkware has been released frequently on CD-ROM and as a downloadable CD
ISO image. Individual packages are distributed via FTP. The Skunkware CD
release history is as follows:
</p>
<ul>
<li>1983 - <a href="/skunkware/Games/">First SCO Xenix Games Diskette</a></li>
<li>1993 -Skunkware (SCO UNIX 3.2)</li>
<li>1994 - <a href="/skunkware/94/index.html">Skunkware 2.0</a> (OpenDesktop)</li>
<li>1995 - <a href="/skunkware/95/index.html">Skunkware 5</a> (OpenServer 5)</li>
<li>1996 - <a href="/skunkware/96/index.html">Skunkware 96</a> (OpenServer 5)</li>
<li>1997 - <a href="/skunkware/index.html">Skunkware 97</a> (OpenServer 5 and UnixWare 2)</li>
<li>1998 -Skunkware 7 (UnixWare 7)</li>
<li>1998 - <a href="/skunkware/98/index.html">Skunkware 98</a> (OpenServer 5)</li>
<li>1999 -Skunkware 7.1 (UnixWare 7)</li>
<li>1999 - <a href="/skunkware/99/index.html">Skunkware 99</a> (OpenServer 5 and UnixWare 7)</li>
<li>2000 - <a href="/skunkware/2000/index.html">Skunkware 2000</a> (OpenServer 5)</li>
<li>2000 - <a href="/skunkware/uw7/index.html">Skunkware 7.1.1</a> (UnixWare 7)</li>
<li>2001 -Skunkware 8.0.0 (Open UNIX 8)</li>
<li>2001 -SOSS 3.1 (OpenLinux 3.1)</li>
<li>2002 -Skunkware 8.0.1 (Open UNIX 8)</li>
<li>2002 -SOSS 3.1.1 (OpenLinux 3.1.1)</li>
<li>2006 - <a href="/skunkware/2006/index.html">Skunkware 2006</a> (OpenServer 6)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="licensing">Licensing</h2>
<p>
SCO Skunkware components are licensed under a variety of terms. Most
components are licensed under an OSI approved Open Source license. Many are
licensed under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the GNU
Library General Public License. Licenses used by SCO Skunkware components
include or are similar to:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
GNU General Public License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
GNU Library General Public License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Artistic License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Mozilla Public License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/mpl/mpl/npl/1.1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Netscape Public License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
The Open Group Public License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/fowler/fowler_html/index.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">
The AST Open Source License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/xorg-docs/License.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
X Consortium License</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
Berkeley Based Licenses</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
A few of the components are “freeware” with no restrictions on their
redistribution. Some components may restrict their use to non-commercial
purposes or require a license fee for commercial use (e.g. MBROLA). Some
components may be redistributed with special permission from the author(s) as
is the case with KISDN. ## Packaging formats SCO Skunkware packages are
typically distributed in the native packaging format of the operating system
release for which they are intended. Package management systems used by SCO
Skunkware include the following:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Old SCO Custom installable floppy images (SCO Xenix & UNIX 3.2v4)</li>
<li>New Custom SSO architecture media images (SCO OpenServer 5 and 6)</li>
<li>SysV pkgadd datastreams (UnixWare 2, UnixWare 7, Open UNIX 8)</li>
<li>RPM (OpenLinux 3, UnixWare 7, OpenServer 5 & 6)</li>
<li>Compressed tar and cpio archives (all platforms)</li>
</ul>
<h2 align="center">Connect</h2>
<div align="center">
<p>
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