I took the opportunity not long ago to try out the eComstation demo offering of an UPDATED OS/2 (see the link that Robert gave), and was mostly pleased with the results on my Aspire 3089 laptop. It is indeed a modern operating system (again). Although I found the default desktop settings kind-of plain, it is the same solid OS that it always was, and the full commercial distro can be tweaked to your liking. The only thing that I didn't like was that HPFS is no longer a disk formatting option in the eComstation version. I also have an ancient AMD K6 machine with the original IBM OS/2 Warp 4 - fixpacks and all - on the first partition, DSL V3.3 on the second, and #!Crunchbang on the third of a 66G hard drive. I had to chainload grub to get OS/2 working with it. That much was a bit of a pain, but, it makes for an amusing machine. And, OS/2's native DOS emulation is second-to-none. IBM still is nice enough to provide continued limited support for its own product, so kudos to them.
On Tue, 7/26/11, Robert C Wittig <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert C Wittig <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1:41 PM On 7/26/2011 11:55 AM, c beck wrote: > So you two really think the OP should be putting OS/2 on his modern think > pad? Seems a bit of an odd suggestion for someone wanting to experience > linux for the first time, eh? > > cheers, > Chris Speaking only for myself, no. I stopped running OS/2 many years ago. However, in the course of the conversation I did check out: http://www.ecomstation.com/ http://www.ecomstation.biz/cgi-bin/db2www/biz_art2.d2w/report?catname=eComStation ...which is the current state of the former OS/2, which does appear to be an up-to-date operating system, which may have some merit in today's computing environment. -- http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
