Praedor Tempus wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2002 09:35 am, Felix Miata wrote:
> > OS/2 v2 ran windoze 3.x software and still does. To run newer windoze
> > software under OS/2 requires Odin or VPC. OS/2 remains easier to use
> > than either windoze or Linux. Like with Linux, uptime in OS/2 is
> > frequently measured in months rather than minutes. If any of the Linux
> [...]
> Not in my experience. I was an OS/2 Warp and Warp Connect user. The SYSTEM
> wouldn't crash often but the GUI would and with its single input queue
> hanging up, preventing ANY and ALL inputs, it might as well have totally
> hung. I had to hard reboot every time that happened. Sure, it didn't happen
> anywhere near as often as a windoze crash, but saying the system didn't crash
> but while you are prevented from inputing ANYTHING is equivalent to a crash.
That was then. This is now, many layers of maturity later. You
apparently never got past v3, much less anything near 4.51.
> I installed Redhat 5.0 on a then dual-boot windoze-OS/2 box and had a triple
> boot system for a while. I then noticed I wasn't ever really rebooting to
> OS/2 AND I planned to upgrade my system hardware to a point that OS/2 simply
> didn't know what to do anymore so off it went into the trashbin. In the day
> I loved OS/2 but it had its inescapable problems and is now barely better off
> than BeOS. That single input queue was a very real killer in practical terms
> irrespective of whether or not TECHNICALLY the system didn't crash.
Until I can make my DOS apps run as well (at all to start with) and
automount of CD's & floppies to work right, I guess I'm stuck with the
easier to use Warp desktop. To install the latest Mozilla beta for OS/2,
I download and unzip one file, rather than trying to guess which file(s)
to download or how to apply them in 8.1. With Warp, I can make the
desktop use the refresh my eyes like best instead of being forced to use
a high refresh rate my monitor is supposed to use but won't. Grub & Lilo
still won't boot OS/2 from a logical directly, so multiboot still
requires IBM Boot Manager sap a primary partition.
There are many things about Linux I like, but it remains harder or even
impossible to use for my daily chores.
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