john smith wrote: > > ... if software from os/2 can be ported to linux.
Basically, any software can be ported. If you can get the source code... > I know that os/2 > can use enlightenment, etc so that means the libraries used are not much > different to linux??? (i'm guessing here...) The libraries may have similarities (will have: windowing systems are windowing systems), but there are different names for similar functions, at the least. A porter will have to know what functions in what X/V/LessTiff/Gnome/KDE/whatevertoolkit do the same things as the functions called in OS/2. Not to mention if there are any basic differences in the message-passing/event-handling system, and how to translate/reformulate. > or maybe if it cannot be ported maybe there is an emulator around? I'm not aware of an OS/2 emulator similar to the Wine and FreeDOS implementations. But like I said, _anything_ can be ported: just takes lots of learning and work :{)