Hello Maciej & Jan & ALL , THe short story is VMS licenses Vax hardware will nolonger be issued . By Either of vms software , inc. Or HP . It's gone . I have a few QBus Vax based systems (and maybe another not qbus) which I'd really like to have be useful to me for a FEW more years . Like hopefully 10-20 years more or until the hardware itself is failing . I also have a SIMH instance functioning for OS testing as the VMS I had running on it worked flawlessly . I am willing and interested , Also if you search the archives , Had been interested before all the wind flew out of the sails of this (IMO) Wonderful project . My one difficulty at present is a ceiling on how much data I can transfer in or out of my data link . With that I can and will do my best to test & report back my findings . And would my efforts be of assistance given the affore mentioned items ? To: Maciej , I have (as far as I am aware) all instances of linux-vax-*.rpm's . my one concern is that there are MANY of simular name but lesser or different marked versioning . Would you please either post a definitive list of the rpm's that are necessary for a running system ? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network & System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux | | jiml@system-techniques.com | Fairbanks, AK. 99709 | only on AXP | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+