Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:34:06 -0500 From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OS/2 on the 70CT
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 06:50:17 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:47:16 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] OS/2 on the 70CT > >At 06:05 AM 9/06/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:07:38 -0500 >>From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: OS/2 on the 70CT >> >>Hi >> >>I used to use OS/2 Warp 4 before I switched to Windows 95/98. I really >>liked it. Now I understand that through the Odin project OS/2 can run >>Windows 95 programs. This is good news to me because the reason I >>switched to Windoze was because of a Winjoke program I have to run for >>school. >... >>card? The mouse? The floppy drive? Will the bios give me any problems? >>I have know idea about this since I ran it on a pretty standard >>desktop system not a laptop before and its been years since I set it >>up but if I remember the system of built-in drivers was very complete >>and I had no problem setting it up on a desktop. Plus IBM keeps them >>up. I doubt Toshiba has any drivers for it. Thanks for any help. >> >>John > >Much as we may dislike what Microsoft does, one does wonder if comments, >name calling and baseless exaggerations of this nature are really necessary >in what I thought was a forum dominated by technology and engineering >professionals ... You might respect criminals- I don't. > >And no I don't happen to work for Microsoft and, given a choice, would use >Linux over both OS/2 and Windows as it is actively maintained, has full >support on the Libretto series of laptops and has no licence issues (not >that I'm proposing that it is a solution for you). > You can't expect anyone to take freeware seriously. If a person needs to who would he call if there's a support issue? For example- right now my newsserver is giving me problems. So I call earthlink to tell they have a problem. While the support tech is telling me to uninstall and reinstall Dial up networking (which of course didn't solve the problem- my computer works perfectly except for a few corrupted files which I got when I had bad memory) I asked him if they support one of the most popular operating systems out there- Linux. No he tells me they don't. So what good does it do to have progressive operating systems if the very people that work on them only support one or two which ones are dictated, of course, by Redmond. The average joe will never be able to use what he chooses because the people that are supposed to fix them won't. Its as if every auto mechanic gets together and decides they're going to work on only one make of car. (For ease of support of course.) That they are only going to ALLOW one make. They are going to force everybody to drive a Ford. Sorry guys no more Corvettes. Of course now Earthlink is canned and I'll find a ISP that is more progressive and supports more than just windows and Macs. John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
