NewsForge: FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the Flame Alive

"After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software (FOSS) for political and philosophical freedom and software quality, the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice. The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture of the familiar and exotic.

"The continued use of OS/2 is made by possible by eComStation, a third-party version of the operating system developed by Serenity Systems International..."

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