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Hardware / Re: The last nail in OS/2's coffin
« Last post by Edmund Wong on March 21, 2024, 06:47:39 am »Hi All
I have to join in to say that I have been looking for a replacement OS since IBM announced OS/2's demise in 2000(?) and have not found anything that I am as happy to use.
The main problem I am currently bumping into is the same as everyone else: We do not have a capable browser. Seamonkey (and, I guess, Firefox) no longer work very well - if at all - on a lot of websites; Doodle (qt5) is simply too flaky to use due to crashes and system hangs.
Thanks to all who have kept OS/2 alive to date.
Regards
Pete
It's not just the OS/2 version of SeaMonkey is having issues with websites. The windows version (2.53.18.x) is becoming a continual chore as websites no longer work properly.
I don't know much about all this hardware talk(I'm only a user); but I'm guessing it'd take a huge dev group to 'modernize' OS/2. Having a 64bit OS/2 system would be nice; but since from what I'm seeing in this thread, the number of people that can actually do that is slowly decreasing by the year. Am I right? Is it possible to even modernize the OS/2 code or does it require a rewrite?
Ed