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What Ever Happened to OS/2?
- orionblastar 14y agoThere were other OS/2 based FOSS projects that died. Voyager was one, to rewrite OS/2 using the known OS/2 API calls. OS2INE was another to try to run OS/2 binaries under Linux like WINE does for Windows binaries. They seem to have vanished from the Internet. OSFree stalled because they could not raise enough money to host their web site and continue development. They had the DOS part working as it was based on FreeDOS, and I think it would run some command line based OS/2 apps as well. I had a few ISOs of OSFree but they don't distribute them anymore. It looks like all they have is the source code. Some of these FOSS operating system recreations just don't go anywhere or stay in the alpha stage. ReactOS, Haiku, AROS, etc are such recreations of Windows XP, BeOS, and AmigaOS. I think AROS is the one that is more polished than the others and more ready for prime time.