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lpino
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« Reply #16 on: 2008.01.26, 01:36:30 » |
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Some of the ideas expressed here are the same that have been talked over and over, once a group of people, decides, it's time to create a "new" OS/2.
The question that really matters is "what the hell is OS/2?", and the answer depends on the user. For some users it's simply a way to use the computer, that means WPS, drag and drop, and so on. For some it's a bunch of subsystems that create a platform to work on, for others is the kernel (therefore changing it blows away the whole point). Because of these different concepts, people tdoesn't agree on how to replace or improve the system.
But lets look at the facts:
- The kernel is not open source - The kernel was a pretty damn good one, but today you can find pretty good kernels around - The kernel it's old now and written in ASM and C only for x86 - OS/2 it is not WPS, so a port of WPS would not be a port os OS/2 - OS/2 was made in modules and that was reflected on the OS/2 PPC port - The sources of OS/2 are "available" if you know where to look - Drivers support would be imposible without a clever solution - OS/2 is a set of APIs. (GPI, PM, DOS,... etc) - freeOS is not dead. They already have a kernel and a working loader they just need hands
We are not many so we can't affort to have many projects, and since there is already work done on freeOS, NOM and Voyager we should be behind those projects all the way. Help them anyway we can, creating web sites, testing and maybe even program.
Leonardo Pino
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