See Comments below - I hope they help. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote:
> I did a google search but am concerned that the information about OS2 is > either dated or slanted. > > Search results revealed the following. Somebody please comment on the > accuracy. > > OS2 is not totally open source because some of the code that it uses is > Microsoft proprietary code. Although something called OSFree is being > developed, it is not ready for prime time. That means that it is not > GPL. > > IBM and Microsoft were working on it together until 1990, but them > Windows took off and left IBM flat. IBM stopped supporting it in 2006. > > OS2 will not work on an x86 processor (true?) - *Not true. I am a former > OS/2 user. I ran it on i386 and i486 computers > * > OS2 is the dominant operating system for ATM machines. - *This used to be > true for older generation ATM machines. New machines are Windows based. Not > sure about Linux*. > > It looks like there were significant periods of time in which no OS2 > development took place. The group of people working on OS2 or OSFree, > I'm not sure which, are doing it on their own time. > > It may have technical advantages or drawbacks vis a vis linux and > Windows. But it isn't ready for prime time, so Ubuntu is the most > viable free replacement system for Windows. Only a programmer could get > a desktop up, running and productive in OS2 - - *I started with OS/2 2.0 > beta cycle (on floppies) and the install was just as easy as Windows. Why > anyone would want to use OS/2 now when we have Ubuntu is strange to me.* > > Again, to the subscribers who aren't familiar with OS2, I am not sure if > any of the above is correct. I am seeking comment from the chat > subscribers to verify all of the above. > > A presentation on OS2 might be a good topic for a future meeting, > especially if it is at the point that CD's could be handed out and > non-techies could self install. > > Mark > -- > Robert Mark Wallace > 60 Delaware Road > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 > Telephone: (845) 566-0586 > > Visit my Blog, Mark Wallace Following Christ, at > > > > http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions >
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