osfree.org

Today, we made a donations page at http://osfree.org/doku/en:donate. Here we detailed the donation methods (currently, via a Patreon page: https://patreon.com/osfree/ or a bitcoin wallet, 1JZRh6xM3WWzesWzig2m8MdTDeCtAzDKQ4). We posted a news item at the osFree home page: http://osfree.org/doku/en:ne...

I updated the ISO image with the current version: ftp://osfree.org/pub/downloads/osfree-demo-0.0.4.8.zip
It is better run in QEMU or on a real machine. VBox should work too.

Yes, unfortunately, FreePascal is still EMX-based. EMX is obsolete now; Python and Perl seems to be up-to-date. Unfortunately, the manpower of OS/2 programmers is limited. So, someone needs to update them, but still nobody to take. Volunteers are needed for porting each program, but too little OS/2 ...

There are Perl, Python, PHP, MySQL and FreePascal ports for OS/2 (not sure about Ruby -- never used it).
osFree aims to be binary compatible with OS/2, so all these languages should work with osFree in the
future.

There are excellent articles at http://www.edm2.com/ (Electronic Developer's Magazine/2). Also, there are good docs from IBM in OS/2 Toolkit. Plus, there are some books available, for example there was "The Art of OS/2 Programming" at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu. I have some books in electronic...

Yes, unfortunately, Yoda's ftp is currently down, so the two upper links were broken. But we have the same files available from the main osFree ftp too, so I fixed the links, so now they point to the working location. I updated the download area, also the same download area is available via ftp: ftp...

Hi, generalram. Glad to see you here :) There is a silence here, since old forum was died because of a server crash at http://os2world.com at the end of 2012. I restored everything that was possible to restore from archive.org, but not everything. Yes, we moved from sourceforge to github a year ago....

#943 Re: SCOUG-Programming: QA equals testing, Part One:Detection Expand Messages Lynn H. Maxson Jan 2 4:51 PM "...Having spent a few years writing requirements, I found that it's pretty hard to define the requirement adequately, up front, and the waterfall of the development process results in...

#942 QA equals testing, Part One:Detection Expand Messages Lynn H. Maxson Jan 2 10:02 AM We all want to produce quality software. We want to produce correct software, a match of the solution set to the problem set, specifications to requirements. We want to produce error-free software, free of error...