It truely amazes me the number of 'elite' slashdoters who choose to speak out of the wrong sphincter. First of all I would like to comment upon the desperate proclamations that "OS/2 is dead!". To you, I would like to point out that I am running an OS/2 system with a kernel newer than the one on the XP box you surf the web with. ..Yeah, I know you have Linux on another partition that you boot to on occasion to show off your cool themes but am I right that it is Redhat? (AKA Linux for Microserf loosers)? Could you recompile a package without autoconf? Have you ever even SEEN kernel sources? I mean, actually viewing them in an editor, not looking at the file names. ..
Face it, the loosers who cry out "OS/2 is DEAD!" are using shorthand for "I bought into all the BS Microsoft sold. I bought every buggy servicepack including ME. I did so because I am a sucker who believed Microsoft when they said I was 'elite' and cutting edge for using Windows[insert current version here]."
Again, face it. ..There never were any 'Killer Apps' that delivered magic unavailable elsewhere that only ran on Windows[insert version of choice here]. You bought Microsoft's line because you were one of those loosers that P.T.Barnum observed being born every minute. ..nothing 'elite' about you at all. Being a Linux 'user' now is meaningless. Nowadays there are distributions even Win-idiots like yourselves can install and use. ..Tell me the 'distribution' you were using a decade ago and I might raise an eyebrow! (I was shipping vertical apps on Linux in `95. ..You didn't even know what Linux was back then!) Anyway, all things die. OS/2, however, has outlived Win3X, Windows 9X, Windows CE, BeOS, conventional MacOS, GEM (Sorry Atari fans. ..I'm not picking on you, just making a point) RiscOS, AmigaOS, . ..and it seems to have a fair chance of outliving the various flavours of BSD as well. It has done this despite IBMs best efforts to kill it.
OK. ..maybe OS/2 will 'die' in the next two or three years. ..What will that mean? It will mean that until that point I will have been using the most awesome OS ever compiled! While you have been desperately chasing after the phantom versions of Windows that doesn't suck, the versions of Linux that you can actually use on the desktop, I have been enjoying everything that you wish your OS of choice was. I know. ..I have actually used and coded for your OS of choice!;) For a general purpose OS, OS/2 has yet to be matched, much less beaten! When an OS comes along that beats OS/2, I will gladly flip IBM the bird and move on. ..
In the meantime, you have my pity. ..I know what you REALLY mean when you cry "OS/2 is dead! (pleasepleasepleaseletitdieI'msoembarassed!)" The idea that people out there are happily using and have been for a decade something far better than what you committed to (or can even imagine? Many of you think that cheezieness is a natural property of computers!) must really rankle! Best for you if OS/2 would just quietly disappear so that you could comfortably convince yourselves that you are not suckers.Sweet dreams Win-idiots! It is time to reboot to Linux so that you can masturbate while looking at your Enlightenment themes! That made you feel 'elite' last week anyway!
To those who know better, my apologies. This post was meant for the lemmings;).
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It truely amazes me the number of 'elite' slashdoters who choose to speak out of the wrong sphincter. First of all I would like to comment upon the desperate proclamations that "OS/2 is dead!". To you, I would like to point out that I am running an OS/2 system with a kernel newer than the one on the XP box you surf the web with. . .Yeah, I know you have Linux on another partition that you boot to on occasion to show off your cool themes but am I right that it is Redhat? (AKA Linux for Microserf loosers)? Could you recompile a package without autoconf? Have you ever even SEEN kernel sources? I mean, actually viewing them in an editor, not looking at the file names. . .
.There never were any 'Killer Apps' that delivered magic unavailable elsewhere that only ran on Windows[insert version of choice here]. You bought Microsoft's line because you were one of those loosers that P.T.Barnum observed being born every minute. . .nothing 'elite' about you at all. Being a Linux 'user' now is meaningless. Nowadays there are distributions even Win-idiots like yourselves can install and use. . .Tell me the 'distribution' you were using a decade ago and I might raise an eyebrow! (I was shipping vertical apps on Linux in `95. . .You didn't even know what Linux was back then!) .I'm not picking on you, just making a point) RiscOS, AmigaOS, . . .and it seems to have a fair chance of outliving the various flavours of BSD as well. It has done this despite IBMs best efforts to kill it.
.maybe OS/2 will 'die' in the next two or three years. . .What will that mean? It will mean that until that point I will have been using the most awesome OS ever compiled! While you have been desperately chasing after the phantom versions of Windows that doesn't suck, the versions of Linux that you can actually use on the desktop, I have been enjoying everything that you wish your OS of choice was. I know. . .I have actually used and coded for your OS of choice! ;) For a general purpose OS, OS/2 has yet to be matched, much less beaten! When an OS comes along that beats OS/2, I will gladly flip IBM the bird and move on. . .
.I know what you REALLY mean when you cry "OS/2 is dead! (pleasepleasepleaseletitdieI'msoembarassed!)" The idea that people out there are happily using and have been for a decade something far better than what you committed to (or can even imagine? Many of you think that cheezieness is a natural property of computers!) must really rankle! Best for you if OS/2 would just quietly disappear so that you could comfortably convince yourselves that you are not suckers.Sweet dreams Win-idiots! It is time to reboot to Linux so that you can masturbate while looking at your Enlightenment themes! That made you feel 'elite' last week anyway!
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Face it, the loosers who cry out "OS/2 is DEAD!" are using shorthand for "I bought into all the BS Microsoft sold. I bought every buggy servicepack including ME. I did so because I am a sucker who believed Microsoft when they said I was 'elite' and cutting edge for using Windows[insert current version here]."
Again, face it. .
Anyway, all things die. OS/2, however, has outlived Win3X, Windows 9X, Windows CE, BeOS, conventional MacOS, GEM (Sorry Atari fans. .
OK. .
In the meantime, you have my pity. .
To those who know better, my apologies. This post was meant for the lemmings