Comment It's not as sad as it seems... (Score 1) 661
Since I'm writing this using an OS/2 Warp machine, Warp cannot be as dead as the majority expects it to be.
So much for that.
I must agree that rather sad things happen at IBM's. But in spite of their favour for Linux in all flavours I have to remind the kind reader that OS/2 resembles that good old Phoenix lately by being burned (by it's inventors) and rising up again with some new feathers and appearance. Since IBM doesn't want this bird to be recognized they chose to let someone else sell it as eComStation (eCS). This thing looks much more like a consumer OS (but still not like something Xtremely Problematic my kids smuggled into the trolley at toys'r'us) while featuring a journalling filesystem (when MS kept brushing up their 'good' old FAT filesystem to something with 32 in it) and much more.
We indeed have our problem zones, but at the moment there's the situation that eCS can almost do anything Linux can concerning hardware and driver support. Well, eCS still is a single user OS and would never run on an IBM z/series machine, but for everyday work it does it's tricks (and you're always sure your data gets stored instead of going up in (blue) smoke.
MS had enough time to work on their mediocre stuff, so we finally have XP. If somebody had invested the same sums into OS/2 (plus the advantage that it surely wouldn't have been MS), who knows what we (or better, they) would be able to do with their PCs today...
I'd say, let OS/2 live, let Linux live, and don't let them put gates all around us. Maybe we should join forces and kick them out! Linux and OS/2 make a much better combination than Windows and... well, Windows.
So much for that.
I must agree that rather sad things happen at IBM's. But in spite of their favour for Linux in all flavours I have to remind the kind reader that OS/2 resembles that good old Phoenix lately by being burned (by it's inventors) and rising up again with some new feathers and appearance. Since IBM doesn't want this bird to be recognized they chose to let someone else sell it as eComStation (eCS). This thing looks much more like a consumer OS (but still not like something Xtremely Problematic my kids smuggled into the trolley at toys'r'us) while featuring a journalling filesystem (when MS kept brushing up their 'good' old FAT filesystem to something with 32 in it) and much more.
We indeed have our problem zones, but at the moment there's the situation that eCS can almost do anything Linux can concerning hardware and driver support. Well, eCS still is a single user OS and would never run on an IBM z/series machine, but for everyday work it does it's tricks (and you're always sure your data gets stored instead of going up in (blue) smoke.
MS had enough time to work on their mediocre stuff, so we finally have XP. If somebody had invested the same sums into OS/2 (plus the advantage that it surely wouldn't have been MS), who knows what we (or better, they) would be able to do with their PCs today...
I'd say, let OS/2 live, let Linux live, and don't let them put gates all around us. Maybe we should join forces and kick them out! Linux and OS/2 make a much better combination than Windows and... well, Windows.
