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Check out: http://www.warpstock.eu/ May 20, 21 in Rotterdam. The next Warpstock in North America is going to be announced soon: http://www.warpstock.org/

It's bigger and badder than ever before.

http://www.warpstock.org/calendar.php?mode=&view=week&month=08&day=17&year=2012

Be there or be square.

Don't know about win2k or xp, but the SMP under NT sucked dead rocks. NT itself tied up one processor. Dual CPUs gave maybe a 20% advantage over a single CPU under NT, while under OS/2 I saw 50-90% increase depending on the task.

OS/2 has always run rings around the bloatware from Redmond. One of the best things open sourcing OS/2 would do would be to give improved thread support for Linux.

OS/2 lives as eComStation - http://www.ecomstation.com/

See what is instore for the future of eComStation at this year's Warpstock 2005, in Hershey PA, October 5-9. http://www.warpstock.org/

OS/2 isn't making a comeback, because it's never gone away.

For Warpstock, the annual OS/2 user conference. Had a great time too. I've decided to attend Warpstock Europe next year as well.

In short, there are plenty of OS/2 users today, although most of them are in Europe. In fact, if Slashdot weren't so US-centric, then the editors would have realized how stupid this "Ask Slashdot" is. Why? Because the biggest OS/2 conference of the year is being held right now in Belgium! The 2nd-biggest was held last month in Toronto.

There are actually two versions of OS/2 available today: the Convenience Pack (CP) from IBM and eComStation from Serenity Systems. eCS is a VAR version of the CP, meaning that it's basically the CP code base, with an enhanced installer, lots of third-party apps built-in, and a bunch of other enhancements. I'm running it right now on a dual Athlon system - the Tyan Tiger MP works great for OS/2, and yes, OS/2 does support SMP systems.

There have been lots of advances in OS/2 over the past year. Project Odin is serious competition for Wine, and can run many Windows apps that Wine doesn't. Plus, Virtual PC for OS/2 was just announced and will be available in a couple months.

Device support has also improved significantly. The only major category of devices that isn't supported is Firewire, but everything else is very thoroughly supported. In fact, video support is phenomenal, thanks to the SciTech Display Doctor video drivers. With these drivers, OS/2 can do what Windows and Linux can't: you can change your video card without reinstalling or reconfiguring any drivers!

I could go on for hours, but I'm going to let other OS/2 users fill in the rest.

Instead of being a moron, why don't you actually visit the Warpstock 2000 Presentation Schedule and see what's going on. If your company does a lot of OS/2 development, then they would certainly be interested in Warpstock. IBM was there in full force and had lots of great stuff to say.
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The developers who are working on this will be at Warpstock 2000 on Septmeber 9/10 in Philadelphia to talk about it, if you want to learn more.
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If you want to talk to Kendall Bennett about Open Watcom, then come to Warpstock 2000 on September 9-10 in Philadelphia. He will be giving a presentation on it.
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If you want to talk to Kendall Bennett about Open Watcom, then come to Warpstock 2000 on September 9-10 in Philadelphia. He will be giving a presentation on it.
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It also has one very cool feature: it can actually execute your program while your editing it - the running program gets updated in real time as you type it in! It's freakin' amazing! If your app displays a dialog box with some text in, and you edit the corresponding line of code, the dialog box changes while your editing that code, character by character!

Not only that, but the company really likes alternate computing platforms. They had a booth at Warpstock a few weeks ago, and they had a PC running OS/2 and an iMac, both running Simplicity.

I've been programming for over 20 years, and very little surprises me these days. But when I saw the Simplicity demo last year, my jaw dropped. It is that cool!.

While I appreciate the ability to customize Slashdot to include the headings from OS/2 News and Rumours and Warpcast, the lack of OS/2 coverage at Slashdot has always been a major disappointment. After all, the byline is News for Nerds, not News for Linux Users, and OS/2 users(like myself) tend to be rather nerdly :-)

Anyway, I don't see this as a death knell for OS/2. IBM has a habit of saying NOTHING about what their plans are until it's just about to bear fruit. I suspect this is a result of their dealings with the DOJ, and can only hope that Microsoft will behave in a similiar fashion after the DOJ finishes with them(ie: no more vaporware announcements.) I consider the fact that IBM is still releasing fix packs, and other items for OS/2, to say a lot more about IBM's support of OS/2 than any lack of news from IBM. These items are things such as the just released Java 1.1.8 update and the beta of Netscape 4.6. It's rather hard to pronounce something dead if the vendor is actively updating it.

I suggest waiting to see what comes out at Warpstock (one of those OS/2 related news items I would have expected to see grace Slashdot's front page). IBM plans to have representatives there and I'm sure the OS/2 users will be after them for information. Weither or not it's something us OS/2 users would care to hear remains to be seen.

However, that won't stop hundreds of us from attending Warpstock '99 next month, right after the Atlanta Linux Showcase.

There are rumors of Stardock taking over a small-user version of the OS/2 client. We'll know for sure this weekend. You can keep track of the OS/2 world by visiting WarpCast

For everyone attending the Atlanta Linux Showcase, you might also be interested in attending Warpstock '99 which is the weekend after the ALS and it's also in Atlanta. It's a great week for people interested in alternate operating systems!!!

I've been to Warpstock '97, took my brother to '98, and plan to attend '99 as well. Follow the link above for more info.

They are all legal copies. It would be pathetic to claim I support OS/2 and then give away illegal copies. That would be detrimental to the cause.

We're about to add one more - my brother's inlaws will soon be running OS/2 as well. They got tired of having '95 crash on them all the time. After seeing the reliability of OS/2 at my brother's, they decided to run it. For them I'm installing a copy of OS/2 3.0 that I won as a door-prize at last years Warpstock which was held near where my brother lives in Chicago. This year's will be held in Atlanta. Sadly, having purchased a system with Windows pre-installed, my brother's inlaws will still be counted by Microsoft as "yet another happy windows user" :-(

I'll have to give the C A [+-] trick a try. Do I need to configure anything first to tell Linux what resolutions/color depths I wish, or does it just step thru what the card is capable of? We're using an old monitor that might not support all the resolutions and frequencies the card can produce.