I didn't realize it, but while doing some research I discovered that OS/2 is still available, albeit with a different name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os/2 Leslie On Friday 04 December 2009 13:14:34 Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:11 PM, James Knott
wrote: Ummm... Shouldn't that be "partition 2: OS/2"? ;-)
If it was still viable I would be using it now....But, I moved to Linux because of lack of support.
KDE until KDE4 was the most like the Workplace shell of many of the desktops.
As for problems on the laptop, I did install it on my Thinkpad A22m. But, it wasn't the laptop that was the issue. It's that KDE4 is just too damn confusing for a longtime KDE user like me to make it work like I'm used to. So long as I can still use KDE3 I guess I will do so. All of the new "features" of KDE4 aren't anything I care about: Semantic Desktop(whatever that's supposed to be) widgets, eye-candy/bling, etc. And the fact that it's noticeably slower on older hardware is bad as well.
I have a newer Pentium M based laptop(which I'm actually used ATM), but It has Win on it since I'm trying to sell it(horrible keyboard to say the least). Looking at a newer Thinkpad, but.....
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