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A 21st-century version of OS/2 Warp may be released soon
- amorphid 10y agoI hope it ships with drivers for my 3dfx Voodoo 5! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5
- walterbell 10y agoHow will this be different from eComStation with $300 business and $20 personal licenses, http://ecomstation.com http://ecomstation.com? Hopefully this updated OS/2 will run as an AWS/Xen virtual machine. Edit: mirror at https://archive.is/U1eTf https://archive.is/U1eTf says Arca Noae's Blue Lion will support upgrades from both OS/2 & eComStation, will include VM images for "select hypervisors" and can run ported Linux apps.
- jccalhoun 10y agoI was wondering how this was related to ecomstation as well. It looks like this company was founded by ex-ecomstation employees: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160324222948/https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160324222948/https://www.... >Arca Noae was founded in July, 2014 when several of the developers who previously worked on the eComStation project felt that the future for the platform looked bleak, a feeling which came about due to lack of progress (or any work being done at all), therefor demonstrating a distinct lack of commitment on the part of the projects new owner.
- jhbadger 10y agoKudos for having this be a slashdot link. A blast-from-the-past reporting on a blast-from-the-past.
- the_duke 10y agoHow about linking to https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion/ https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion/ instead of a Slashdot submission?
- Radio2034 10y agoThat link doesn't work.
- walterbell 10y agoThere are many commments in the Slashdot discussion. The vendor's site is being Slashdotted, currently slow to respond. mirror: https://archive.is/U1eTf https://archive.is/U1eTf
- kevin_thibedeau 10y agoSlashdot doesn't have enough users to take down sites any more.
- wvenable 10y agoWhat's the market for something like this? It seems every few years somebody is releasing a new OS/2. Who is buying it and why?
- walterbell 10y agoSome customers are listed at http://ecomstation.com http://ecomstation.com, probably they have complex enterprise apps that work reliably and are cheaper to maintain than rewriting code and retraining users: Alstom, Germany AustriaCard, Austria Belgacom, Belgium Bilfinger Mauell GmbH, Germany Boeing, USA Bowe, Bell + Howell, USA Canadian Coast Guard, Canada Caterpillar, Singapore Colgate Palmolive, USA Fujitsu, Japan Johnson & Johnson, USA MIT, USA Max Planck Institut, Germany Michelin, France Norwich Union, UK OCE BV, The Netherlands Pittsburgh Embossing Services, USA Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Siemens AG, Germany Standard Bank, South Africa Trustco Bank, USA US Postal Services, USA Universal Instruments Corp, USA
- Spooky23 10y agoTrustco Bank made me chuckle. I had a mortgage with them as they didn't require PMI or escrow (probably because they couldn't calculate it) They are a regional bank near me whose former CEO's core objective with respect to technology is to stay as backwards as possible to make it overly costly and difficult to acquire them. They literally as recently as 2013 had no computers in the branches. Only some amber terminals. They were buying TV ads a year ago announcing mobile banking. Their statements were still printed on impact paper, and transactions took 3 days to post. I think they got fined by the Feds and were forced to modernize. In any case, a bizarre place and not surprising that they remain OS/2 users.
- jacquesm 10y agoI wished my banks were that reliable. I'm not sure whether 'open all the time except when DDOS'd' is a real improvement over a predictable paper based bank that simply always works. The only time I missed salary payments (and I still feel bad about that) is when my banks systems were inaccessible on the day we normally pay salaries. In the past when it took 3 days to process the transactions we never missed because we calculated that consistent delay into the date we'd send in the transactions. So now I do it 'on the day' and if the bank doesn't perform on that day everybody is screwed. Tricky equation: 3 days, 100% reliable vs instant, 99% reliable.
- saghm 10y ago(emphasis mine): > Blue Lion, which appears to be in closed beta with March 31st 2017 cited as the target release date, will come with up to date Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client, Apache OpenOffice, other productivity tools, a new package manager, and software update and support subscription to ensure system stability. How is OpenOffice still being used in so many different places? Hasn't it be basically dead and superseded by LibreOffice for years?
- unixhero 10y agoYeah. Makes no sense.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoMy guess is: some of the users still attached to OS/2 are big corporates. And they really, really like official things. Having the Oracle name associated with Openoffice, and even the Apache name, makes it much more saleable.
- sjwright 10y agoAt this point its borderline ridiculous that Apache hasn't turned Apache OpenOffice into a branded distribution of LibreOffice.
- tedunangst 10y agoHey, somebody almost made a new beta a few months ago. Or at least thought about making a new beta.
- arde 10y ago> appears to be in closed beta with March 31st 2017 cited as the target release date More like April 1st, IMO.
- khaled 10y agoLibreOffice dropped OS/2 support early on in the project lifetime, Apache OpenOffice didn’t and a company was maintaining an OS/2 port at some point.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoIn its day, OS/2 was great for developers, supporting multiple DOS versions, Windows 3, and native OS/2. I would expect some companies to still support software on these platforms, so Blue Lion does make sense.
- jmspring 10y agoI recall using OS/2 as my development platform while at Netscape. Win16, Win32 andOS/2 builds on one platform. Plus it had a much better networking stack. Continued to run Warp for a few years and recently set up a VM with Ecomstation so I could play the original Galactic Civilizations again. This should be j retesting to check out.
- beders 10y agoOS/2 was pretty advanced back in the day. Something like System Object Model is still nowhere to be seen on modern desktops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model Instead we are now at distributing whole browser engines with a few kilobytes of HTML and JS to 'integrate' into the desktop and call those applications.
- cyberferret 10y agoI remember setting up a small BBS back in the '80s using OS/2 Warp - it was about the only OS at the time which could support multiple modems reliably. Total footprint probably smaller than most web pages I visit these days. Still got a boxed set of IBM OS/2 Warp complete with 3.5" disks sitting around here somewhere...
- pmarin 10y agoOS/2 Warp is from 1994.
- KC8ZKF 10y ago"Finishing touches can often take longer than expected. Because we want ArcaOS 5.0 to be the best that it can be, Arca Noae has made the difficult decision to delay release two weeks, with a new projected delivery date of April 15, 2017."[1] [1]https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-launch-on-hold-for-a-few-more-days/ https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-launch-on-hold-for-a-few...