I took the opportunity not long ago to try out the eComstation demo offering of an UPDATED OS/2 (see the link that Robert gave), and was mostly pleased with the results on my Aspire 3089 laptop. It is indeed a modern operating system (again).
Although I found the default desktop settings kind-of plain, it is the same solid OS that it always was, and the full commercial distro can be tweaked to your liking. The only thing that I didn't like was that HPFS is no longer a disk formatting option in the eComstation version.
I also have an ancient AMD K6 machine with the original IBM OS/2 Warp 4 - fixpacks and all - on the first partition, DSL V3.3 on the second, and #!Crunchbang on the third of a 66G hard drive. I had to chainload grub to get OS/2 working with it. That much was a bit of a pain, but, it makes for an amusing machine. And, OS/2's native DOS emulation is second-to-none. IBM still is nice enough to provide continued limited support for its own product, so kudos to them.
On Tue, 7/26/11, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1:41 PM
On 7/26/2011 11:55 AM, c beck wrote:
> So you two really think the OP should be putting OS/2 on his modern think
> pad? Seems a bit of an odd suggestion for someone wanting to experience
> linux for the first time, eh?
>
> cheers,
> Chris
Speaking only for myself, no. I stopped running OS/2 many years ago.
However, in the course of the conversation I did check out:
http://www.ecomstation.com/
http://www.ecomstation.biz/cgi-bin/db2www/biz_art2.d2w/report?catname=eComStation
...which is the current state of the former OS/2, which does appear to
be an up-to-date operating system, which may have some merit in today's
computing environment.
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