Guest post by Bww bitwise works has announced the fitfh beta of its Firefox port to OS/2 and eComStation. Bww bitwise works also announced that they are makking progress porting SWT/Eclipse, and that they are starting to work on porting a newer version of VirtualBox to OS/2.
This is encouraging for the eComStation-OS/2 community.
The lack of an up-to-date browser is often seen as an hurdle to attracting new users to an alternative/ lesser-known OS.
It is also interesting to find active development teams so long after IBM having given up hope on OS/2.
It is nice to see some modern software on OS/2 but the OS itself is still dead in terms of core development. Due to IP/licensing issues, IBM cannot open OS/2 kernel for development which means it is stuck in 1990s (relatively slow, less and less usable on modern hardware).
OS/2 maybe a corpse yet eComStation seems to be doing relatively well with it.
There are also open-source projects attempting to re-create it in parts or in whole like OSFree ( http://www.osfree.org/) and Voyager ( http://voyager.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml ).
So, the existence of ports of modern software to OS/2 is encouraging for the communities fanatic enough about it to attempt to recreate it.
Edited 2015-07-25 14:30 UTC
all of which stagnated years ago.
Sadly everyone wanted a UNIX on their desks, not an OS/2.