From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GiHQ5-0002TA-CC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:26:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA9LOQBm019371; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:24:26 GMT Received: from ufies.org (ufies.org [65.110.12.162]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA9LMCU1018520 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:22:12 GMT Received: by ufies.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 73D711CC217; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:25:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:25:07 -0800 From: Alan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux? Message-ID: <20061109212507.GO17379@ufies.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20061109040005.GA16999@waltdnes.org> <004601c703c8$d99ee440$450a0a0a@locutus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004601c703c8$d99ee440$450a0a0a@locutus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 7e6b94da-c352-4290-8ed0-13b55045d52f X-Archives-Hash: 0d99009d418ccd13ccde19ad5012c54e On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:32:08PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Have you tried VMWare? > > The workstation version has a free 30 day trial (just emerge it). > > Then you can make a VM for OS/2 however you like it, and use the FREE VMWare > Player to continue indefinitely. > > I suspect VMWare will work flawlessly for you -- it's pretty much the single > best piece of software ever written. I'm not sure.... I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory management or something). Not sure if this has changed in the 5.x series or not, but it's something to check. Good luck though! -- Alan - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list