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Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016

From Slimer <.m@nsn.s>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016
Date 2015-11-05 10:40 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2015-11-05 10:28 AM, Desk Rabbit wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 15:09, Slimer wrote:
>> PC users might finally have a decent alternative to Windows!
>>
>> <http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/11/03/1337254/the-return-of-os2-warp-set-for-2016?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29>
>>
>>
>> We all known the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others
>> may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation.
>> Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this
>> last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new OS/2
>> version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at Warpstock
>> 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 and the SMP
>> kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism and the
>> OS2World community is now requesting everybody that has developed for
>> OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.
>>
> 
> It will live or die depending on hardware driver and good application
> availability, after all, what use is an OS that just sits there and does
> nothing?

I imagine that its hardware support will be awful and that very little
will be done to remedy that. I can't imagine any group, even with high
amounts of money, ever managing to support every piece of hardware out
there.

-- 
Slimer

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OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 10:09 -0500
  Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Bob Loblaw <BL@LinuxProfessionals.com> - 2015-11-03 10:30 -0500
    Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 10:40 -0500
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-03 13:04 -0600
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 14:45 -0500
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Bob Loblaw <BL@LinuxProfessionals.com> - 2015-11-03 19:25 -0500
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-04 14:23 -0600
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-04 15:39 -0500
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-03 16:09 -0700
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Bob Loblaw <BL@LinuxProfessionals.com> - 2015-11-03 19:30 -0500
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 19:35 -0500
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-03 19:20 -0700
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-04 11:56 -0600
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-11-04 19:08 +0100
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-05 07:29 -0600
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-05 08:44 -0500
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-04 14:49 -0500
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-04 15:00 -0500
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-04 17:25 -0500
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-04 14:24 -0600
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2015-11-05 12:31 +0000
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-05 07:51 -0500
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-05 09:59 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-05 10:02 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-05 10:10 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-05 13:34 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-05 13:33 -0700
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-03 16:09 -0700
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 18:41 -0500
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-03 19:21 -0700
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-04 09:33 -0500
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-11-04 09:48 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-04 10:48 -0500
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Bob Loblaw <BL@LinuxProfessionals.com> - 2015-11-03 19:01 -0500
    Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-03 13:03 -0600
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Bob Loblaw <BL@LinuxProfessionals.com> - 2015-11-03 19:03 -0500
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-04 14:23 -0600
  Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 17:24 -0800
    Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 17:41 -0800
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 21:05 -0500
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-11-04 23:04 +0000
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-11-04 23:15 +0000
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-04 19:46 -0600
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-04 18:27 -0500
    Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-03 21:04 -0500
  Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-05 15:28 +0000
    Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-05 10:40 -0500
      Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-06 12:27 +0000
        Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-06 13:33 +0100
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 07:52 -0500
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-06 14:31 +0100
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 08:33 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-06 14:39 +0100
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2015-11-06 07:41 -0600
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-11-07 09:21 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-07 10:18 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-11-07 12:44 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 19:49 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-09 07:22 -0600
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 13:32 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 08:50 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-06 13:53 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 09:04 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-06 07:26 -0800
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-09 12:51 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 06:47 -0800
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-10 09:29 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 08:02 -0800
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-12 11:12 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-12 11:09 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-10 09:29 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 08:38 -0800
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-12 11:18 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-12 11:10 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-09 09:16 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 09:10 -0800
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-06 12:50 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-11-06 23:06 +0000
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 18:12 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-07 00:27 +0100
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 18:30 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-07 00:35 +0100
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-06 18:41 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-06 18:58 -0500
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-06 19:48 -0700
                Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-06 18:53 -0500
              Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-06 09:49 -0600
          Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-11-06 13:28 +0000
            Re: OS/2 Warp set to return in 2016 Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2015-11-06 07:34 -0600

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