Re: Future of OS/2 : was: ECS questions

Sten Solberg wrote:


Well, I have not jumped yet, but I have some issues: SeaMonkey, as well as Mozilla and Firefox, frequently either close or freeze the WPS - sometimes so hard that a CAD is necessary.

I am not seeing that kind of problem right now but I am using what is now a fairly old mozilla-based browser. I'm not sure what to try next, though, now that IBM has stopped porting mozilla updates as IWB. What version of SeaMonkey or Firefox seems to be the best of the current lot? I don't care if it's the newest but just the one that's the most stable. I've got a surplus box right now that I can use for testing. I'm not very hopeful, though...


OpenOffice does the same, and can barely have one biggish spreadsheet document loaded, vs. ten or more under W2000/Linux. Mesa 2 works fine, but OO spreadsheets don't seem to convert fully, and why does anti-aliasing not work with Mesa 2? OpenOffice is at v2.1, while we are still waiting for v2.0, not knowing if the memory problem will be solved or even if attempts will be made to solve them. There is no good or stable Limewire or Torrent software - the latter can't download a file bigger than 2 GB, so f.ex. the latest Knoppix distro is out of reach for OS/2 users. Warpvision has come a long way, but doesn't support the MMS format, or DRM-protected files, and apparently needs some third party software to function with a browser. For my AMD system the ACPI driver solved some problems, but I still need to boot to Windows and then reboot to eCS from a cold start. And so on and so forth.

I haven't got Windows installed as a booting volume yet on my Athlon X2 system but Windows on Virtual PC works okay. I haven't used the ACPI driver, though. Why do you need to boot to Windows?




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Posted with OS/2 Warp 4.52
and IBM Web Browser v2.0.5
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