The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 3, 2015 @02:36AM from the also-the-return-of-velcro-shoes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: We all know the ill-fated history of IBM's OS/2 Warp, while some others may not know about the first OS/2-OEM distribution called eComStation. Now a new company called Arca Noae, not happy with the results of this last distribution, has signed an agreement with IBM to create a new OS/2 version. They announced a new OS, codenamed "Blue Lion," at Warpstock 2015 this last October; this will be based on OS/2 Warp 4.52 and the SMP kernel. The OS/2 community has taken this news with positivism and the OS2World community is now requesting everybody that has developed for OS/2 on the past to open source their source code to collaborate.

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Re:WTF is "positivism"? by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2015-11-03 02:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

So...some company signed a distribution agreement with IBM to revive an old operating system and the OS/2 community reacted by taking up philosophy instead of developing or porting any software? Seems about par for the course to me.