It would be a worthwhile thing for IBM to revive OS/2.

The way it is right now, there really isn’t a workable OS in the PC world. Just look at it; Windows, the most botched up OS on the market. And it’s getting progressively worse. You can tell, it is becoming harder for the Gates Boys to find things to copy or steal; there goes Redmond’s innovation… Don’t hold you breath – Windows 7 is another nightmare in the making.

Linux is great, however, the biggest problem is that an ordinary person is not capable and in most instances not willing to go through the nightmarish system administration, such as application installations plagued with dependencies problems, security setup issues, extremely poor ability to run non-linux applications (I know, you may think of Wine app; sorry guys, Wine is not going cut it, ever), and the issue that irritates me, a long time Linux user, is the inconsistencies among the distros – nobody is willing to follow some common directory and file naming structure, making it a real challenge when trying to harden the system – especially through SElinux. Linux will never become a serious desktop contender! It will always be relegated to a “hobby” operating system status.

OpenSolaris? Another half-baked OS lacking “this” and “that”… Try to install it on your desktop, laptop, or whatever; most likely you will fail. Otherwise, it works just great.

In my opinion, IBM withdrew from the pc OS arena too soon. There are millions of people searching for an operating system that just plain WORKS.

OS/2 has been jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft. The software includes code not written by IBM so it won't be open-sourced even if IBM wished that to happen.

I have used OS/2 Warp 3.0 exclusively on my home computer since its release. It is small and quick. It is fine the way it is. The more upgrades it gets the bigger and slower it gets, just look at Windows. What it needs are those basic drivers like video, USB flash memory and USB Wi-Fi.

Please open source OS/2 please~ (if you aren't going make a com'back and makeing OS/2 alive again)

We want OS/2! We want OS/2! We want OS/2! ...