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Cristiano Guadagnino 10.11.2004

Jim, it is not a generic name. If you look at the logo you should grasp the meaning. It is derived
from OS/3 (ie: the successor of OS/2) and with an accent on the fact it is 'free'. Since three and
free have such a similar pronunciation, we have "melted" the "3" and the "F" in the logo, but you
can't easily convey the same meaning using simple text.

Vesselin Peev 10.23.2004

I think that an open source OS/2 is much more likely to succeed as a project than Windows,
given the fact that the OS/2 API has not changed a lot since its inception. .NET and all that
paraphernalia doesn't have to be cloned, for example. I'm working on a our inhouse game
engine with, believe it or not, OS/2 support. I'll keep tabs on this space.
vesko@overselfresearch.com

Vesselin Peev 10.23.2004

... much more likely to succeed as a project than a Windows *clone*, that is
vesko@overselfresearch.com

david 11.18.2004

osfree...less likely to succeed than a windows clone...if it is based on reactos.
animepc@ix.netcom.com

david 11.19.2004

OSFREE based on React OS is a Windows clone, not an OS/2 clone. USE L4 instead.
The OS/2 personality is just window dressing. It's windows to the core.

Dee 11.19.2004

IBM has released REXX as open source. That means 1 less subsystem to be redesigned.

Yuri Prokushev 11.19.2004

2david Don't point us what we must do. osFree is OS/2 clone. Period.

Stu 11.19.2004

Basing on reactos is a great plan, hopefully in the end the changes could get ported
back to wine, and running os2 programs in linux could become a reality (not only that,
but some of the syscalls are similar between windows + os2 (of course windows nt
basically came from os2))

david 11.23.2004

Since OSFree is doomed to failure and my dreams will never come true, I will post my fantasies here.
kava(w): konami audio-visual architecture (for warp.) Konami's version of MMPM/2! os/2 will be the
world's first public domain operating system! the open group will adopt free os/2! Konami uses "OS2
PowerPC" aka OSF/Warp OS and PhoenixOS. cde/wps, cde/warp, polyex software brings konami's solar
assault to os/2! vic viper racing game by konami. gradius V/VI and solar assault revised for the
Ecomstation, konami backs rexx/os, os/2 and ecomstation features in konami games. There is
Konami's arcade loader AmiWARP, a cross between OS2PPC and Amiga OS with L4 kernel. konami:
ready for os/2 warp, powered by amiga! OS2 PowerPC aka osf/warp os, os2ppc, FreeOS aka
OpenOS2 and OS3 operating system. The OSF/Warp OS: an OS/2 based operating system with a
custom kernel for the RS/6000. RS/6000 Common Hardware Reference Platform clones have the
name "Warp Systems." ODE: the object Desktop Environment. Operating System 3 and OSF/Warp OS
uses the L4 nanokernel. konami metalion hardware (chrp) comes after konami viper hardware. object
Desktop for AmigaOS. The Warp System 6000 doesn't compete against the Power Amiga, or (A-box)
because it's only meant to be an alternative to the Unix workstations. The Warp System 6000 (WS/6000)
has AmigaOS and Warp OS pre installed. It does not support Unix or Linux. The Warp System 6000: an
RS/6000 clone running a version of OS/2. One uses it to post process the animation done on a Power
Amiga for the movie "Penny." Motif/2. team risc system/2 or team warp system. open object desktop
for os/2, and the platform independent version. warptif by hungry programmers. y window for os/3.
The WARP POWER Servers using POWER6 and Operating System 2, the OS/6000, a high end os/2 like
operating system for supercomputers derived from Phoenix OS. OS/6000 uses the Workplace Shell.
Detractors named it the "microscopic operating system" so the developers had to rename it OS6000,
which they claim is "3000 times more powerful than the OS2 WARP." The originators of the OS
originally meant OS6000 to be a RS6000 operating system, but when they found out the Open
Group already used OS2 for the PowerPC, they rededicated it to Supercomputer use. The NuDawn
OS is unusual for an OS2 clone, since like OSKit, one can use it to design other operating systems.
Radiant OS is a realtime OS2 like operating system. WarpOS has an UNIX and an OS/2 OS personality.

david 11.23.2004

yuri, you don't know what you are doing! Osfree is dead!