os/2?
December 7th, 2004 stevel
thunderbird-1.0-os2.zip 07-Dec-2004 10:30 12M
from the contributed builds directory for the new Thunderbird 1.0 release.
Thunderbird is great, I’m a huge fan. After all the years of Pine, Elm, & mutt - Thunderbird was the first client that was able to convince me to switch back to a GUI email client. I’m still a big mutt fan and user though (I use it when I ssh into grommit). But in terms of features, Thunderbird is awesome.
What impresses me more though is the diligence of whoever is building those OS/2 Thunderbird builds. They are consistently among the first ‘contrib’ builds tossed up whenever a new release of Thunderbird/Firefox is done. Who is this mysterious OS/2 builder? I can’t believe people still use OS/2…
Don’t get me wrong, I loved OS/2. I went from DOS+Windows to DOS+Desqview to OS/2, and never looked back. I loved OS/2… it was only after Warp went down in flames (ring the klaxon!) that I finally was forced to accept Windows had won the desktop…
sigh. OS/2… good times..good times
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8 Comments Add your own
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Michael Kaply | December 8th, 2004 at 05:34
Who is this mysterious OS/2 builder?
That would be me. Thanks for the kudos.
And if you get really bored and want to run OS/2, get a copy of Microsoft VirtualPC and I’ll send you a free copy of the latest OS/2 (offer for steve only).
Mike Kaply
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SteveW | December 8th, 2004 at 10:55
Check out the netscape.public.mozilla.os2 newsgroup, and you’ll see that it is quite active.
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Gregory L. Marx | December 8th, 2004 at 12:10
Not to mention but if you’re still slightly interested take a look at http://www.ecomstation.com for a new OEM OS/2 client release.
While OS/2 is indeed dead from IBM’s marketing perspective the OS continues to live via eCS, Mike and the GREAT Mozilla-family apps, and many other dedicated individuals who continue to support this fine operating-system.
So as Monty Python used to say:
“I’m not dead yet …”
GLM
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Pete | December 8th, 2004 at 13:33
Funny ain’t it?
For a “dead” os there seem to be a lot of people producing up to date drivers and applications.
I can only say “Thank You” to these people, like Mike, who make it possible for me to use current hardware and software on my favourite os.
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Felix Miata | December 8th, 2004 at 21:04
I skipped windoze before and after DesqView, going to Warp 4, then MCP, and now eCS. I do use doze, but only for Mozilla QA work & helping friends keep their broken automatic virus/spyware/adware/trojan installers semi-functional. Linux is far less noxious than doze, but not nearly so easy to use on a daily basis as eCS. When something works, you don’t switch.
If only the build process wouldn’t keep changing so OS/2 nightlies would be nightly instead of repeatedly breaking IBM’s OS/2 build machine.
And then there’s bug 176238, which summarizes why after 7 years keeping Warp/eCS up 24/7 I still use Netscape 2.02 for most email even though Seamonkey otherwise rulez. -
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Isaac | December 9th, 2004 at 00:54
The builds come up quick because of a few dedicated people (Mike, Peter come to mind) and because there’s still a TON of OS/2 users. Like me. You can still get OS/2 from IBM, I think, through some long convoluted process. Better bet for new user is eComStation.
OS/2 is plenty alive. It’s a perfectly good (dare I say best) general purpose platform. No virus or security worries.
Do you know of any other platform that has 2 versions of independently produced Java 1.4.x? And one of them even costs money to buy. Yet they make a living out of it. Companies are willing to pay for Java (which is normally free for many other platforms) rather than move off OS/2. That tells you something.
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Sean Dennis | December 22nd, 2004 at 07:33
For a dead OS, OS/2 sure has a lot going for it. I just downloaded the latest Mozilla and NVU… am very happy with it. I still run a BBS under OS/2 and OS/2 is still my preferred personal OS. I do have a Windows machine for Windows development I do, but when that’s done, I go into the other room to my OS/2 machine.
If it wasn’t for the dogged efforts of some very dedicated OS/2 individuals, OS/2 would have died off long ago, but as anyone can see, OS/2 is far from dead and I’m thankful for the people that work like hell to make sure us OS/2′rs have the latest and greatest Moz stuff to work with.
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David Oakford | October 2nd, 2006 at 06:38
I just want to see follow comments.
I use os/2 every day at home and at work.
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