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October 11th, 2002, 09:44 AM
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Re: Fate of OS/2?
Originally posted here by problemchild
And since OS/2 was always a close relative of AIX as far as the kernel went, I've often wondered about the possibility of releasing at least the WPS (if not the entire OS) under the GPL so it can be ported to Linux and/or incorporated into Gnome and KDE.
Sorry for taking a while to response, but I just found these.
Apparently some people has already started it with osFree :
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news...&id=1014066683
Another similar project is FreeOS/2 (more serious I guess...) :
http://www.freeos.cjb.net/
Also, unixos2 and os2ports develop ports of open source apps for OS/2 :
http://www.unixos2.org/
http://os2ports.com/
mmelby, maybe you don't need to phase them out just yet... 
Peace always,
<jdenny>
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