The experience of myself and others suggests that I will soon need to buy new hardware in order to read modern web pages, and to manipulate, print and store their components.

I already rely on my smartphone to read several web pages when a desktop computer is clearly a better tool for the job.

My question is :- which OS platform will keep up with internet technology and allow file transfer into my OS/2 and XP LAN?

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johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

The experience of myself and others suggests that I will soon need to buy new hardware in order to read modern web pages, and to manipulate, print and store
their components.

I already rely on my smartphone to read several web pages when a desktop computer is clearly a better tool for the job.

My question is :- which OS platform will keep up with internet technology and allow file transfer into my OS/2 and XP LAN?

I've been using Linux Mint as a fall back. The included Samba _should_
handle your LAN, though it might need some tuning. The newer Firefox's
work pretty good as well and Linux should be supported for a long time.
This would probably run fine on your current hardware though it would be
nice to double your memory so you could use a 64 bit version. You'd
probably have to turn off all the eye candy as well, which isn't a great
lost and perhaps use the XFCE version.
You could try downloading an ISO and burning it and play with a live
install (running off the DVD). I'd suggest the 18.x version rather then
the new 19 or better test both and as I said, with only 2GB of memory,
you should stick with the 32 bit version.
Dave

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In <wkA1D.382772$ll2.30965@fx35.iad>, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> writes: >johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

The experience of myself and others suggests that I will soon need to buy new
hardware in order to read modern web pages, and to manipulate, print and store
their components.

I already rely on my smartphone to read several web pages when a desktop
computer is clearly a better tool for the job.

My question is :- which OS platform will keep up with internet technology and
allow file transfer into my OS/2 and XP LAN?

I've been using Linux Mint as a fall back. The included Samba _should_
handle your LAN, though it might need some tuning. The newer Firefox's
work pretty good as well and Linux should be supported for a long time.
This would probably run fine on your current hardware though it would be
nice to double your memory so you could use a 64 bit version. You'd
probably have to turn off all the eye candy as well, which isn't a great
lost and perhaps use the XFCE version.
You could try downloading an ISO and burning it and play with a live
install (running off the DVD). I'd suggest the 18.x version rather then
the new 19 or better test both and as I said, with only 2GB of memory,
you should stick with the 32 bit version.
Dave

Thanks Dave.

A Google search revealed an announced, but not yet released, MintBox Mini 2 Pro with version 19 and all the latest 64 bit hardware. It looks like a cheap and hassle free workaround to the problem of browsing with OS/2.

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On 07/11/2018 11:57 PM, Dave Yeo wrote:

johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

The experience of myself and others suggests that I will soon need to
buy new
hardware in order to read modern web pages, and to manipulate, print
and store
their components.

I already rely on my smartphone to read several web pages when a desktop
computer is clearly a better tool for the job.

My question is :- which OS platform will keep up with internet
technology and
allow file transfer into my OS/2 and XP LAN?

I've been using Linux Mint as a fall back. The included Samba _should_
handle your LAN, though it might need some tuning. The newer Firefox's
work pretty good as well and Linux should be supported for a long time.
This would probably run fine on your current hardware though it would be
nice to double your memory so you could use a 64 bit version. You'd
probably have to turn off all the eye candy as well, which isn't a great
lost and perhaps use the XFCE version.
You could try downloading an ISO and burning it and play with a live
install (running off the DVD). I'd suggest the 18.x version rather then
the new 19 or better test both and as I said, with only 2GB of memory,
you should stick with the 32 bit version.
Dave

I haven't used Hoblink x11 in quite some time, but perhaps it'd still be
enough to run a Linux web browser on the OS/2 desktop?

TBH I like OS/2 for the GUI.. don't really mind where one or two of my
programs execute from. I ran GAIM with Hoblink X11 for a long time to
talk to friends on AOL Instant Messenger. (This was what.. 17 years ago? sheesh.) Gotta make it do the things you want or it's a bit of a bust.

Alex

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On 13/07/2018 16:14, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

Hoblink x11

is this available anywhere? to buy?

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On 07/14/2018 03:21 AM, David Wade wrote:

On 13/07/2018 16:14, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

Hoblink x11

is this available anywhere? to buy?

Apparently the last legitimate way to get it was with eCS 1.x and the
trial version on hobbes.nmsu.edu is time-limited.

I'd bet you could find a full copy if you looked hard enough. Maybe
promise yourself you'll buy whatever it gets bundled with next. (If it
ever does) ;)

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Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

On 07/14/2018 03:21 AM, David Wade wrote:

On 13/07/2018 16:14, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

Hoblink x11

is this available anywhere? to buy?

Apparently the last legitimate way to get it was with eCS 1.x and the
trial version on hobbes.nmsu.edu is time-limited.

I'd bet you could find a full copy if you looked hard enough. Maybe
promise yourself you'll buy whatever it gets bundled with next. (If it
ever does) ;)

I have a copy on my Warp V4 partition that they gave away at the end.
When I try to run it under eCS 2.x or AOS, it complains about licensing
and exits. Not sure how it keeps it license key.
Simpler is to use a vnc server or remote desktop server on Linux and run
it from OS/2.
Dave

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On 14/07/2018 18:23, Dave Yeo wrote:

Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

On 07/14/2018 03:21 AM, David Wade wrote:

On 13/07/2018 16:14, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

Hoblink x11

is this available anywhere? to buy?

Apparently the last legitimate way to get it was with eCS 1.x and the
trial version on hobbes.nmsu.edu is time-limited.

I'd bet you could find a full copy if you looked hard enough. Maybe
promise yourself you'll buy whatever it gets bundled with next. (If it
ever does) ;)

I didn't look too hard. I might if I don't get a positive response

I have a copy on my Warp V4 partition that they gave away at the end.
When I try to run it under eCS 2.x or AOS, it complains about licensing
and exits. Not sure how it keeps it license key.
Simpler is to use a vnc server or remote desktop server on Linux and run
it from OS/2.

That would seem to be a simple option.

Dave

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In <c1.2c.41Rl7T$0vB@PC1.BIGPOND.COM>, johnsuth@nospam.com.au writes:

In <wkA1D.382772$ll2.30965@fx35.iad>, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> writes: >>johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:

The experience of myself and others suggests that I will soon need to buy new
hardware in order to read modern web pages, and to manipulate, print and store
their components.

I already rely on my smartphone to read several web pages when a desktop >>> computer is clearly a better tool for the job.

My question is :- which OS platform will keep up with internet technology and
allow file transfer into my OS/2 and XP LAN?

I've been using Linux Mint as a fall back. The included Samba _should_ >>handle your LAN, though it might need some tuning. The newer Firefox's
work pretty good as well and Linux should be supported for a long time. >>This would probably run fine on your current hardware though it would be >>nice to double your memory so you could use a 64 bit version. You'd >>probably have to turn off all the eye candy as well, which isn't a great >>lost and perhaps use the XFCE version.
You could try downloading an ISO and burning it and play with a live >>install (running off the DVD). I'd suggest the 18.x version rather then
the new 19 or better test both and as I said, with only 2GB of memory,
you should stick with the 32 bit version.
Dave

Thanks Dave.

A Google search revealed an announced, but not yet released, MintBox Mini 2 Pro
with version 19 and all the latest 64 bit hardware. It looks like a cheap and >hassle free workaround to the problem of browsing with OS/2.

Well, I can report that it is.

The MintBox is fanless, and five of them will just cover a regular keyboard.

I bought it direct from Compulab and set it up with my OS/2 intuition.
FF?? does all the things that FF38 once did on OS/2, but no longer does for whatever reasons.

The Ubuntu repository seems not to have a sufficiently modern driver for my 10 year old printer, so I print to file then FTP it to the server on OS/2 and open it in Lucide for printing with a useable driver.

I installed Samba but it did not find my OS/2 peer on the Windows Network. Do I
need Samba also on OS/2? From XP I use NetBT to push and pull files to my OS/2 peer.

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