#arcaos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arcaos, aggregated by home.social.
-
-
-
#ArcaOS mag etwas altbacken wirken, aber:
- Programme haben einen Umfang in MB, nicht GB
- it is as fast as hell! -
-
I am seriously tempted to buy #ArcaOS even though I have absolutely no use for it other than tinkering
-
ArcaOS 5.1.2: как OS/2 добралась до UEFI и больших дисков
Несколько дней назад вышла ArcaOS 5.1.2 . Это свежее обновление системы, которая продолжает жить на кодовой базе OS/2 Warp. Релиз важный: разработчики довели до ума установку на актуальные машины с UEFI и дисками, размеченными по GPT. Теперь можно спокойно ставить систему на ноутбуки и десктопы последних лет без необходимости ковыряться в настройках совместимости прошивки или переразмечать накопители под старый MBR. При этом поддержка классических BIOS-систем никуда не делась — загрузка и работа на них остаются такими же надёжными, как и раньше.
-
#ArcaOS 5.1.2 now available
-
#ArcaOS 5.1.2 (OS/2) released: #os2 https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-1-2-now-available/
-
Bin heute mal wieder zufällig über meinen leider längst verstorbenen Lieblings-PC gestolpert, ein IBM Thinkpad 600X mit Docking Station. 64 MB RAM, 6 GB Festplatte. Gebraucht gekauft.
Ich hatte darauf OS/2 Warp 4 laufen. Das war traumhaft...
Ich hatte leistungsfähigere PCs, aber nie einen besseren.
Die 600er waren noch offiziell für OS/2 geeignet und haben das System gut unterstützt.
Als mein ThinkPad den Geist aufgab, endete für eine ganze Zeit meine Beschäftigung mit OS/2. Erst mit eComStation (in Virtual PC) fing ich wieder an, mit OS/2 zu arbeiten. Aber nie wieder auf echter Hardware (einen Versuch hatte ich noch gemacht, mit ArcaOS 5, aber Hardware und Betriebssystem mochten sich nicht).
-
I remember when #Windows95 had recently came out and I went to the local Best Buy and changed all the screensaver text to say "OS/2 Warp" because even then I was into alternative software/etc (I still pay for an #ArcaOS subscription).. then later that day I went home and something in os/2 broke so I just put win95 on my machine and wow what an experience.
-
@jbz what I'd like to know is if I can run #ArcaOS in a VM or get a container version. I tried installing #eComStation from CD's in #VirtualBox, based on someone's video, but utterly failed.
All I really want to do is run an old version of #PGP so I can extract my keys and use them as the basis for new #GPG keys. Apparently GPG's backward compatibility only goes so far 😢
-
-
ArcaOS (previously: Blue Lion) - a 32-bit single-user multiprocessor operating system with preemptive multitasking for the x86 architecture, built on the basis of OS/2 Warp 4.52. https://archiveos.org/arcaos/ #os2 #operatingsystem #arcaos
-
@mhd I have an ongoing project that I’ve been tinkering with on and off (mostly off) for well over 20 years (!), first on OS/2, then eComStation, currently on ArcaOS. Uses VisPro/REXX. Like all the best hobby projects, it will probably never see the light of day, but hey, it’s fun. 🙂
#rexx #OS2 #ArcaOS. -
Never exposed myself much to IBM OS/2 and maybe it was better before the warp era compared to other operating systems at the time. But it hasn't aged that well like the BeOS/Haiku experience.
I prefer running an OS natively on the hw but in this case I wasn't that committed. Not yet at least. But maybe #ArcaOS is the modern alternative to Win98SE for #DOS and early Windows Gaming and I should install it on some computer as the only OS.
-
@ltning I miss OS/2 :(
I must try #ArcaOS sometime: https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
-
Well, after a day of stupiditry, I finally got
#ArcaOS "installed" on the new MiniPC and the #BBS working.
#retrocomputing is fun, but sometimes stuff is way more complicated than needed.
Blogged the whole thing at https://insecuredisaster.com/arca-os-a-minipc-and-running-a-bbs/ should someone care to read about how it took a whole day to do something that should have taken like an hour. -
CW: idk, begging?
Well... Seems like I have 3 options left, 1 is to wait for a scene release for ArcaOS, 2 is to beg for a copy, and 3 is to wait for me to have 8000+ PHP in my disposal.
I guess one decision is more stupid than another so I'm stuck with whatever 5.0.0 has to offer (which is available publicly online for like 3 years).
Guess have to find ways to get myself a copy easily.
Maybe I'm bored, so...
-
-
#ArcaOS 5.1 gives OS/2 a UEFI facelift for the 21st century :os2warp:
-
Ever wonder what happened to #IBM #OS2? Wonder no more. #ArcaOs
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming
#VintageTech #ThrowbackThursday -
ArcaOS: OS/2 Updated for the Modern World - For a certain subset of our readers, mentioning IBM’s OS/2 is likely to bring fort... - https://hackaday.com/2023/02/16/arcaos-os-2-updated-for-the-modern-world/ #retrocomputing #arcaos #os/2
