Slashback: Tenacity, Freedomware, Lem

Slashback brings you more on Solaris, the not-quite-dead OS/2, and free software you can sneak onto your Windows-running computer. Also, Home Depot turns to the dark side, and Hughes winds down its two-way Internet-by-satellite service. Read on below for the details. Update: 12/18 00:30 GMT by T : The Home Depot item got chopped by accident; it's been restored below. Update: 12/18 00:38 GMT by T : Sigh. And -- my fault for misreading -- Hughes is shutting down their DSL business; satellite service continues at least for now.

Honest, I'm not dead. Again. silvaran writes "A clarification on CNet News indicates that IBM will not stop supporting or selling OS/2 as mentioned previously. Says IBM spokesman Steve Eisenstadt, 'As long as our customers want OS/2, we will support them... We don't have plans to withdraw OS/2.' The withdrawal notice lists several hundred components or software packages that will no longer be available, but OS/2 itself will still be offered."

Like Marshall MacLuhan in Annie Hall. tree writes "The Boston Globe has a really interesting interview with Stanislaw Lem, author of the 1961 novel "Solaris": he is a bit baffled about the latest movie adaptation. In any event, it's a great read for fans of Lem."

They win, GNU Win, we all win. Shwag writes "Last week I downloaded TheOpenCD after it was on Slashdot. I learned about all kinds of great free (as in speech) software. I then searched for more and found out about GNU Win which is a win32 free software cd but it has way more software! Yay! This is a really great way to show people the benefits of free software and get them ready for transitioning to linux."

A platform built from an Acorn. An anonymous reader writes "The (London) Guardian's Online section reports today on the new Ionix PC earlier Slashdotted for being the first desktop to run Intel's XScale processor. The Guardian concentrates on how the new machine may revive the fading fortunes of the once-pioneering Risc OS, but also makes mention of the fact it is ditching old proprietary Acorn subsystems."

Woe to the boonie dwellers, until enough balloons are in place. Avenger writes "Another DSL provider is getting out of the market. Hughes Electronics has announced that they will no longer be providing high-speed Internet services. Over 160,000 users will be affected. As it stands right now, they still will be providing connectivity via DirecPC."

But it seemed like such a great do-it-yourself idea! adagioforstrings writes "You may recall last year Home Depot announced they were deploying Linux at 90,000 point-of-sale terminals across the nation. Well, time went by and no more was heard about it...until now, when Home Depot announced they would be upgrading their POS systems with technology from NCR Corp., and 360 Commerce Inc. and ... Microsoft Corp."

Comments

Re:I'll bite, Timothy

[b0r1s]

I am a Slashdot subscriber. Are you?

No. Nor will I ever be. This site has very little quality news, little respect for journalistic integrity, horrible reliability, and the editors consistently insult their readers.

Why anyone would PAY for this site is beyond me.

Re:I'll bite, Timothy

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot has no editors, it has moderators that decide what links, submitted by readers, offer up.

Editors edit.

There is nothing original here, no reporting, nothing of that. It's just the big /dev/null of the linux crew.

I read news on FoxNEWS, Reuters, even yahoo news.

I read Slashdot for the Anti-MS comments logged in a conversation about LCDs for some car. I read slashdot to hear that Transmeta (who would not even be a blip on /.'s radar if Linus didn't work there)

Re:Wait...

[the unbeliever]

"Home Depot To Migrate All PC's, Registers, and Forklifts to Windows 3.11"
Now *that's* what I call the Dark Side.

That's not just the Dark Side, that's an Evil Empire.

Re:Correction: Newest OS/2 was released in 2002

[AndroidCat]

but IBM's heart hasn't been been in it for a long time.

Not just their heart: Other parts too.