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#1
IMO it is rather pointless to discuss this.

The probability of OS/2 and eCS becoming Open Source is next to zero. IBM would have to invest money to sort out license issues and prepare the release. There is little to be gained there on the non-pecuniary side, so unless there is a business case of sufficient size, it will not happen.

Creating an OS/2 clone might not be impossible technically, but practically the situation is such that it won't happen anyway. Such a project would be huge and take an awful lot of manpower. The number of developers who are skilled enough to pull this off and are still into OS/2 and eCS is small. If they worked on such a project in their spare-time, it would take about forever. Even if they could work on it full-time, it would take quite long. While they were working on it, other projects that are vital to the community would have to be put on the back-burner and technical progress would move on. I rather doubt that this would be of benefit.

The only way I can see for OS/2 technology to survive in the long run is by


  • Coming up with something that is based on other OSS to minimize down the workload and is cool enough to draw developers from elsewhere, which is pretty much what Voyager was aiming to do first; or
  • Injecting it into a current platform that has a large developer and user base.

Given that user-interfaces of OSes/distributions like Windows 8 and Ubuntu are taking the mobile route currently, which seems to put off quite a few people, there might actually be a window for the second option.
#2
I do have a legit copy with printed documentation I'd be willing to part with. I've sent a personal message with more information.
#3
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20675/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Monday, 21 March 2011


Craig Mille. .. .

I'd be surprised if it happened. IIRC some OS/2 users managed to *really* put him off.
#4
Internet / Re: Wordpress or Joomla ?
2010.10.18, 14:04:12
Quote from: RobertM on 2010.10.17, 23:48:30
The easiest I've used for website creation is Typo/2 (or is it Typo/3?). But it's horrendous as a blog. For website stuff though, it's far easier if you are setting up a site for a customer to update than say Joomla. Much less of a learning curve.

That's TYPO3. I mostly use this for my customers. Like Drupal it has quite a learning curve but you get a great deal of flexibility in return. There are add-ons available that help you a lot in setting up reasonable basics and you can do quite a lot without having to write PHP code. As for blogging, there are two add-ons available. Anyway, for a blogging-only site, TYPO3 is overkill unless you plan to extend the site in the future.
#5
Internet / Re: Wordpress or Joomla ?
2010.10.17, 12:58:41
It depends on what you want to do with it. Word has it that Wordpress has rather bad code quality -- which implies bad security. It's basically still a hacked blogging script. From my own experience, Joomla is mediocre security-wise and does not scale well. The backend quickly gets confusing when the number of articles grows. Ask the guys running OS/2 World.com. You may want to have a look at a more modern CMS like TYPOlight (has nothing to do with TYPO3) or MODx.
#6
When does the error occur and what is the error message exactly? Which driver and version are you using?

If this is an older machine, you may need to make sure that the card gets an own IRQ assigned via settings in the BIOS.
#7
1. This is not the appropriate place to report broken links on another web site.

2. The name is VOICE, for crying out loud. The "O" in VOICE already means "OS/2."

3. Christian Hennecke is not the all-purpose contact at VOICE. He used to be the Editor in Chief of the now dead -- or at least deeply sleeping -- VOICE Newsletter but he certainly is not the webmaster. In fact, he no longer is a member of VOICE.

4. That page actually shouldn't be there any more. Feel free to contact VOICE about it. The archive of past Newsletters is accessible via the standard Newsletter page at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html.