Monday, November 28, 2005
osFree
osFree is an attempt to build an open-source OS/2 clone. They haven't made too much progress thus far: no loader, kernel, or device drivers are written yet. Reverse engineering a code base that was developed over two decades is going to be undeniably hard.
So the first question to ask is... Why bother? Where is the demand for an open-source alternative to OS/2? And if the demand exists, why not petition IBM to release the OS/2 source code instead? The last two OS/2 products will be withdrawn from the market in a few weeks and OS/2 customer support will end in 2006.
So the first question to ask is... Why bother? Where is the demand for an open-source alternative to OS/2? And if the demand exists, why not petition IBM to release the OS/2 source code instead? The last two OS/2 products will be withdrawn from the market in a few weeks and OS/2 customer support will end in 2006.
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