Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Dec 2001 17:47 UTC
IBM's OS/2 has a great history as a workstation operating system, it was a major alternative OS in the '90s. At its peak time in the mid-'90s OS/2 had about 2 million users but the Windows NT and Windows 95 releases broke its further development. This year Serenity Systems has released a new client version of OS/2. This article will introduce you to what OS/2 is all about. You will learn its history, its user interface, and its power under the hood. The article is also accompanied by a number of screenshots.
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As a fan of OS2 from 1992 (starting from version 2.0), I was rather happy with WARP 4. Not rushing for constant renewal of the desktops, etc., I would have probably kept WARP 4 a while longer if I had not bought a 2 CPU PC. Making a long story short, the installation procedure of eCS 1.0 is far from perfect (actually it is quite buggy), connection with the NT LAN (the choice of my organization, not mine) is a real pain (still not working right), and the number of crashes I have experienced during the last few months far exceeds what I have seen during almost a whole decade before. I recent fix of the kernel made the system far more robust, but crashes do happen. Add a problem of not having OS2 gurrus around. So, I wish it was all a bit easier.