On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:33, James Knott wrote:
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
I have to say this is more than a little ironic. For years I never met another person who ran OS/2 (although I did once get a list of local users from an OS/2 group. Team OS/2 maybe? There were like 5 members in the entire region). Now here I am years later on a SuSE list and they're coming out of the woodwork. :-) Go figure. Are all (all, hehe) OS/2 users migrating to SuSE?
I suspect many people are running Linux for the same reason they used to run OS/2. They want a reliable and flexible OS, which rules out Windows. Now, if only IBM would port the WPS (Work Place Shell desktop) to Linux. There's no other desktop I've seen that comes anywhere near to what the WPS can do.
For the last few years I've heard chatter about IBM being unable to release any of the OS/2 source code because there was too much MS code intermingled. More recently someone suggested avoiding this issue by replacing the OS/2 kernel with linux and porting the "desktop" which I assume IBM has full ownership of. Sounds interesting but a lot of work. This all kinda ties in with my wish to have OS/2 style network management tools for my SuSE boxes. Jeff