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Comment by chasil | Hacker News Reader

Red Hat recently removed Motif from their distribution. I wonder if it's still in AIX.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6113101

"I wonder if it's still in AIX."

  lslpp -l|grep -i motif
  X11.adt.motif             7.1.5.31  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Application
                                                 Development   Toolkit Motif
  X11.compat.lib.X11R6_motif
                            7.1.5.31  COMMITTED  AIXwindows X11R6 Motif 1.2 &
  X11.motif.lib             7.1.5.31  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Libraries
  X11.motif.mwm              7.1.1.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Window
  X11.msg.en_US.motif.lib    7.1.3.0  COMMITTED  AIXwindows Motif Lib. Msgs -
  X11.msg.en_US.motif.mwm    7.1.3.0  COMMITTED  AIX Motif Window Mgr Msgs -

  oslevel -r
 7100-03

I think aix still ships CDE, too

which would be unremarkable except none of the UNIX vendors has produced a new build in like 30 years

so if they are still shipping CDE it is probably 32 bit binaries from AIX 4 or AIX 5L

"deprecated" is not "removed"

it can take literally decades for a deprecated package to actually get removed, because customers get mad

I think it is removed from rhel10. I can check if you want.

The entire 32-bit subsystem (multilib) is also removed from rhel10.

It is as of 2 years ago, the last time I had access to AIX. many proprietary applications on AIX used Motif Libs.

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