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OS/2: Blue Lion
« on: November 04, 2015, 11:44:50 am »
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OS/2: Blue Lion to be the next distro of the 28-year-old OS

Arca Noae is developing a new full distribution of OS/2 that should ease the pain of upgrading or deploying the OS on modern hardware.


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Blue Lion — The return of OS/2

Arca Noae, an organization run by veterans of the OS/2 ecosystem, obtained a license from IBM to sell a new distribution of that OS, which at present is codenamed Blue Lion.

This new distribution will bundle Arca Noae's updated software package, which includes support for modern ACPI versions, USB 1.1 and 2.0, AHCI support needed for Serial ATA disks, the Panorama display driver, the Multimac driver suite for network cards (wireless support is forthcoming), and Uniaud, an ALSA-compatible sound driver. All of these are available now for existing OS/2 deployments, from Arca Noae, with discounts available for users who upgrade to Blue Lion.
New features

Features new to the Blue Lion distribution include a completely reworked installation process, which will allow for installation from USB drives. The developers are also researching network installation. Like modern installers for Windows or Linux distributions, it would include the ability to connect to the internet during installation to download the latest packages, ensuring that the system is completely up to date, out of the box. Work on correcting SMP support, among other features, is also planned.
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Re: OS/2: Blue Lion
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2015, 07:52:55 am »
WOOT! I don't know why, but this made my day.
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Re: OS/2: Blue Lion
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2015, 01:06:45 pm »
Thought it might.  Never used OS/2 myself.
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Re: OS/2: Blue Lion
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2015, 06:58:34 pm »
It has to have been close to 20 or 30 years since I last used it. I just remember getting it for free with a box of blank 3.5's.
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