In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/21/2005 at 11:31 AM, Leonard Woren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My recollection and understanding is (was?) that when most people ask >for IBM to open-source OS/2, it's the WPS that they want in order to >port just that to Linux. If WPS gets ported to Linux, why would >anybody care that OS/2 is dead? [1] Applications that aren't available for Linux, e.g., Family Tree/2, InCharge, MR/2 ICE. OpenDoc. >So a good question would be "does the WPS by itself have IP that IBM >would not be able to open-source?" Well, the key pieces are HPFS, PM, SOM and WPS itself. I understand that some of the Linux file systems support extended attributes. I believe that PM is encumbered. AFAIK, SOM and WPS are strictly IBM. >[1] I discovered that OS/2 was dead when one of my SCSI HDs failed >and a friend suggested "Forget SCSI, just get a big IDE disk to >replace all your SCSI disks." Turns out that OS/2 can't be >installed on IDE disks > 4 GB. Yes it can[1], and I've done it. You need a more current release. Although on my primary machine I use SCSI, by choice. [1] Although I believe that the new limit is still lower than the limit for SCSI. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html