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Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?

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Roderick Klein:

--- Quote from: Klafi on March 31, 2025, 11:44:03 am ---Dear all,
How about an OS/2 or ARCOS without Windows and DOS? Wouldn't that be easier?

Thanks everyone

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Its about 25% of the kernel source is the VDM support. But removing that is not going to make it easier I am afraid to get a new kernel.

Roderick

Craig Miller:
I would like to add two things:

1. Updated Thunderbird or an email program that can connect to email sites like outlook, yahoo, google, etc.
2. Libreoffice

I know they are big projects but I can always hope =)

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

For the moment we have in no specific order:
1) Modern web browser
2) Wifi Driver.
3) Memory issues
4) IPv6.
5) Email app (Modern) compatible with yahoo, gmail, etc
6) QEMU. Not only the software, but guest integration too.
7) LibreOffice

And side discussion:
1) There is no need to worry because we have virtualization.
2) The dislike of RPM/YUM or FHS.
3) A alternative kernel discussion

Regards

Dave Yeo:
About the email client. We actually have a bug that breaks Oauth2, which causes the login problems. Often, like I do with Gmail you can use an app password. Not sure about Yahoo, but even following the SeaMonkey list, outlook is weird, slightly different way of doing Oauth2 and various servers where only some work.
May be app passwords available for both.
Here's the instructions for Gmail, https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en

As for LibreOffice, one of the first things they did when they forked from OpenOffice was rip out all the OS/2 code and since a lot of development has happened there. It would be a huge job and we don't really have anyone working on OpenOffice. Would be nice if OpenOffice was back porting some of the stuff from LibreOffice but there's no volunteers.

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