Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1123 mails)

[jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx (jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx)]

On 01-Jul-98 Leon McClatchey wrote:

>> I switched cold turkey from OS/2 (which I really really liked) to Linux.  I
>> haven't reinstalled OS/2 and may never do so.
> 
> I thought about it, but there are too many applications that I have set up
> and am
> using in OS/2.  But lately, I spend more time in Linux and less time in OS/2.

I really miss DeScribe.  I should try it in Wine...  The Win32 version is
SMOKING fast, about as fast as Notepad (yes faster than WormPad)

> the
> only real drawback to that is that HPFS is read only in Linux (is it in the
> plans
> to make in read/write in the near future?).

No, not from the sounds of it.  However, the last OS/2 configuration I had
eliminated HPFS altogether.  Get yourself the Ext2FS driver for OS/2 and
read/write in Linux AND OS/2.  It worked really well, and no drawbacks. 
Remember to rem out the HPFS.IFS driver.
 
> My only complaint about WPS was that unless you went to 3rd world utilities,
> you
> could not set up user profiles for the desktop.  Other than that, I still
> believe
> that Win95 got their desktop idea from Ibm's os/2:-)

Once I made an entire simple PIM using nothing but desktop objects and settings
(one "To-do" folder, sorted by an EA of [1,2,3,4 or 5] with appropriate icons,
templates for new items, data file objects for memos/notes, unfortunately no
calendar, but IBMWorks PIM was great at that part.)

I ask again, any Window Manager that can do that?  Please??

>> Sounds like it's time to install XFree86-OS/2!  (Check my page for links, I
>> haven't seen it in about a year, though)
> 
> I have it, and installed it, but have it disabled in os/2, didn't feel that
> it
> really worked well in that environment.  Didn't really like having to run a
> driver
> to enable it.  Xfree in Linux is much more versatile and a whole lot easier
> to
> work with:-)

I didn't like it not being seamless.  It was a rush to run a completely foreign
environment on OS/2 though.  Try networking it and setting the X display to the
OS/2 machine, and running the X program off the Linux server!  That's
seriously cool!  Let me know how it works.


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