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Post #434,127

by Andrew Grygus

5/23/20 1:52:46 AM

OS/2 is Old!

Dumped it (well - sort of) a couple of years ago. My two former OS/2 computers (my two main computers) now run ArcaOS - the 2017 update from OS/2.

Only problem I have, the running version of Firefox is pretty long in the tooth, I couldn't get the Firefox beta to run (thought other people have). Firefox development has pretty much stopped, and the promised Falkon browser (in active development) isn't quite finished yet. Porting all the libraries from Linux has been the problem.

How to update really old Ubuntu install? - (drook) - (39) - May 21, 2020, 10:00:50 AM EDT

what happens when you use wget to get that file? -NT - (boxley) - May 21, 2020, 10:25:02 AM EDT

Don't go straight from $ancient_version to $modern_version, if possible - (pwhysall) - (14) - May 21, 2020, 11:07:43 AM EDT

Working, please wait... - (pwhysall) - (13) - May 21, 2020, 11:29:22 AM EDT

You must be bored, but ok and thanks - (drook) - (1) - May 21, 2020, 11:28:41 AM EDT

Well, that's Linux for you :D - (pwhysall) - May 21, 2020, 12:13:19 PM EDT

I noticed - (drook) - May 21, 2020, 03:09:00 PM EDT

So, it works. - (pwhysall) - (9) - May 21, 2020, 05:21:11 PM EDT

About to punt - (drook) - (8) - May 22, 2020, 11:19:32 AM EDT

What's in the logs? -NT - (pwhysall) - (7) - May 22, 2020, 11:24:13 AM EDT

Wood. HAAAAAHAHAHA!!!! - (drook) - May 22, 2020, 05:31:26 PM EDT

Nothing useful - (drook) - (5) - May 22, 2020, 10:06:38 PM EDT

OS/2!! - (Another Scott) - (1) - May 22, 2020, 10:19:42 PM EDT

OS/2 is Old! - (Andrew Grygus) - May 23, 2020, 01:52:46 AM EDT

Progress! I think ... maybe - (drook) - (2) - May 23, 2020, 02:28:01 AM EDT

I have had some success with Aptitude for apparently-borked apt issues -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 23, 2020, 05:12:11 AM EDT

2nd this - (scoenye) - May 23, 2020, 12:40:10 PM EDT

What's the toolchain you're trying to resurrect, btw? -NT - (pwhysall) - (19) - May 23, 2020, 05:12:41 AM EDT

LaTex / Lyx plus several plugins for formatting -NT - (drook) - (18) - May 23, 2020, 08:54:39 AM EDT

Can't just lift config and make files? - (pwhysall) - (17) - May 23, 2020, 06:12:55 PM EDT

I set it up (apparently) 10 years ago - (drook) - (16) - May 23, 2020, 08:01:15 PM EDT

Let a lazy bastard help - (pwhysall) - (15) - May 24, 2020, 03:37:38 AM EDT

Lyx / LaTeX doesn't fail so usefully - (drook) - (14) - May 24, 2020, 09:20:46 AM EDT

I had an old PC act up recently... - (Another Scott) - (13) - May 24, 2020, 11:07:27 AM EDT

PS/2 keyboard works, but ... - (drook) - (12) - May 24, 2020, 01:22:16 PM EDT

Also... - (pwhysall) - (11) - May 24, 2020, 05:20:12 PM EDT

Maybe once I drop the coin on a new box - (drook) - May 24, 2020, 05:27:41 PM EDT

This^^^^ - (crazy) - (9) - May 25, 2020, 08:08:46 AM EDT

Ok, so how? - (drook) - (8) - May 25, 2020, 09:38:47 AM EDT

It's been years for me since I've done this stuff - (crazy) - May 25, 2020, 12:15:02 PM EDT

If possible choose default instance environment. - (crazy) - May 25, 2020, 12:18:37 PM EDT

Re: Ok, so how? - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 25, 2020, 12:36:08 PM EDT

Nice. Thanks for the pointer. - (Another Scott) - May 25, 2020, 01:02:20 PM EDT

2) depends on your current active kernel - (scoenye) - (2) - May 25, 2020, 09:38:37 PM EDT

May not matter, I believe I've bricked it - (drook) - May 25, 2020, 10:17:55 PM EDT

10.04 works like a dream in VirtualBox - (pwhysall) - May 26, 2020, 02:21:18 AM EDT

Just came across this - (crazy) - June 5, 2020, 07:36:13 PM EDT

Turns out there was an easy solution - (drook) - (2) - June 8, 2020, 05:37:15 PM EDT

Neato. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 8, 2020, 08:44:33 PM EDT

On running hot - (scoenye) - June 9, 2020, 06:22:48 PM EDT

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