Linux is evolving as the predominant operating system of the new millennium, and legacy operating systems such as OS/2 are being gradually phased out. This series of articles helps the developers involved in the tedious process of migrating/porting the OS/2 system drivers and applications to Linux. In this second of three installments, the authors focus on managing pipes, memory, and files.
OS/2 to Linux: Memory management, IPC, and file handling
About The Author
Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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IBM is going to lose big. Most Banks are moving to Windows.
No, IBM does not lose. They also sell Windows+service and software for Windows…
if IBm cannot opensource OS/2 b/c some of the source code is owned by microsoft, why doesn’t IBm allow people to download OS/2 for “free”
well, that would work since it worked for IE, but I assume MS lawyers are smarter than that and there is a stipulation in the licensing contract that says IBM must sell the software at a fair market price.
Yes, they have to sell it, as did IBM Australia when they included it on “The Australian PC Magazine” CD three years ago. Why don’t IBM do this in other countries ?
i have OS/2 2.1 that came free with a magazine years ago, so it was free in the UK too once.
I’ve talked to the chief developer of OS/2 2.0 about this issue and he told me that IBM was not that stupid to sign deals that would prevent them to do whatever they want with the OS/2 sourcecode. He told me if IBM does not release the source it’s because they don’t want, not because they can’t. As chief developer back then he must know it…
so i can install it on old ps/2 machines
well duh, of course they can release the source code to os/2 if they wanted. They made that part… Now the parts made by others like say boot code, they can’t release, and technically, that ain’t OS/2. So sure, they can release it, doesn’t mean it will compile. And let’s not forget the source may be dependant on other libraries… not that it matters. If you want free and sourcecode, go use Linux. I’m sticking with OS/2, thanks. There is truly no need for the source code for OS/2 to “open up”. The pertinent parts for others (JFS, etc) have already been moved to linux by IBM.