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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Serenity systems has done a great job with ECs, but I believe that their develpment model has been flawed.
Serenity has a point when they say that a lot of the OS/2 code has possible industry secrets from Microsoft and probably cannot be opensourced. Serenity had some outside developers working on the code. These developers obviously had to sign NDA agreements. So why doesn't Serenity elicit help from the OS/2 community and get them to sign NDA agreements.
This would allow the ECs to flourish into a truly modern OS and surpass Windows once again.