[Computerbank] Isolated places without support.

[Greg White]

Good points,

greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Collins <terryc at woa.com.au>
To: Greg White <glwhite at netconnect.com.au>
Cc: <computerbank at lists.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Computerbank] Isolated places without support.


> Greg White wrote:
> >
> > I like linux for obvious reasons.  But it is not so much an idiot drive
> > system, like some well known O/S's.  I was wondering if any
consideration
> > was given to IBM's O/S2  .
>
> OS/2 is/was a great operating system, but even if IBM gives away copious
> free copies, there is still the killer question of support.
>
> The problem with OS/2 was that everything could only be done one way and
> exactly that way. So if you didn't know that way, it was very
> frustrating.
>
> Ten years ago there was "free" and very good support through Fidonet and
> the Internet from OS/2 developers and administrators. But these people
> have now moved on to earn livings elsewhere. So support is very limited.
>
>
>
>
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