[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?
Vincent Danen
vdanen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 11:35:56 CDT 2008
* [2008-04-04 12:28:12 -0400] John Mark Clayton wrote:
>I used OS/2 Warp for a number of years and found it appealing. I preferred
>the 'object oriented' desktop. I could set attributes on a per-file pr
>folder basis rather than per the file extension. I thought the desktop
>experience was more responsive than Windows. Thought there were times when
>the input queue would over flow and hang the desktop. It was a rock solid
>os for doing software development. I was disappointed with the availability
>of applications and drivers.
I loved OS/2. While everyone went from DOS to Win3.1 to Windows95, I
went from DOS to win3.1 to OS/2. Fantastic OS. Serious PITA to install
sometimes tho.
I looked at it again a few months ago by installing it in Parallels on
my mac, just to see if I could do it. I did it, eventually, but the
networking setup was a serious PITA.
Honestly, people who think Linux is hard should try getting a working
OS/2 up and running. =)
I would no longer use it... the mac and Linux are so much better than it
now, but "back in the day", it was awesome. It wasn't until IBM
seriously borked a fixpack for Warp 4 that I started to look at Linux
seriously.
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Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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