Symbolics Genera to be available under free for non-commercial use license

Posted by __lm__ on Thursday August 06, 2026 @09:04AM
from the hachyderm.io dept.

https://hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/117044268951603975

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Re:Symbolics Genera to be available under free for non-comme... by Rochus on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:57PM (#49203777)

One could obtain and run an old (Open) Genera image with a VLM port from archives or community distributions. What is announced here is that "Symbolics Technologies" is now formally offering Genera and the VLM under a free-for-non-commercial-use licence. But it's not open source as it seems.

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Re:Symbolics Genera to be available under free for non-comme... by __lm__ on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:49PM (#49235095)

Yes, unfortunately not open source. I tried Open Genera with the VLM port for Linux about ~8-10 years ago. The tutorials and the process got a lot better a few years laters. This should be an official way to run it (with all the associated additional first-party programs).

From an historical point of view it is interesting to see what “could have been” and what was lost.

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