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| Brandon | OS/2I won a nice collection of OS/2 stuff:
http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Boxes-of-OS-2-Warp-Version-4-on-CD_W0QQitemZ250441160620QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a4f74d7ac&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1234|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50QQautorefreshZtrue
I can't wait to get it and to mess around, I have a few neat ideas, and I've looked around on some sites and there seems to be a decent selection of OS/2 stuff out there (Warpzilla for example).
I wonder if my Thin Client will run it? :P | 2009-06-16 | 2:24 PM |
| SonicBrit | Re:OS/2nice dude
I used to run os2 warp back in the day as they say "it runs windows 3.1 better than windows 3.1" :P
Great OS, just a shame IBM abandoned it | 2009-06-16 | 3:43 PM |
| Brandon | Day One with OS/2My software come today, it was exactly as advertised. I was most excited about Warp 4, because you can get Firefox for it, so I got out my IBM Personal Computer 350, and then remembered you need boot floppies that help get the install going, so after about a half hour of trying to get floppies working, I finally installed OS/2. I found that the IBM Web-browser didn't work although I got an IP from the DHCP server. So I decided I needed to get new software on, and of course there was no USB Mass Storage drivers included, and after spending the rest of the day finding a driver, having it not working and trying on another machine, I'm getting tired of USB Flash Drives :P. I have some ideas left, so maybe I'll get it before bed. | 2009-06-20 | 9:07 PM |
| Todd | Re:Day One with OS/2Is this Warp 4? How can you run Firefox in it? Did you just run the binaries or did you have to compile it inside OS/2?
Sounds like for drivers and hardware, it's still not up to date but then again it was abandoned. | 2009-06-21 | 3:57 PM |
| SonicBrit | Re:Day One with OS/2http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
You be surprised how many ports are available for os2, you can run x windows (http://www.xfree86.org/) and there is posix compatibility layer (http://posix2.sourceforge.net/) for compiling unix applications to os2.
Plus if its a windows 32 app you can use odin (like wine, but converts the API, rather than an emulation layer) (http://odin.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml) one of the cool things with odin is you can compile a windows app using odin libraries to run it under os2. Opera uses this for its os2 version. | 2009-06-21 | 6:43 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Day One with OS/2There is a Firefox port, I haven't got to use it yet. OS/2 seems stable and fast enough, but on the drivers end of things its not so good. I'm in the process of acquiring a copy of eComStation though a somewhat questionable method :P. I figure so far I've not been impressed, so they aren't getting my money, but if I like what I see, I'll run out and pay for the license. | 2009-06-21 | 6:51 PM |
| JFK | Re:Day One with OS/2been a long time since ive used os2 crazy | 2009-06-21 | 7:40 PM |
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