On Tue September 3 2024 10:10:12 dep via tde-users wrote: > Clearly you have found LVMs highly useful. I confess a prejudice: IBM tried > something similar in the waning days of OS/2. Some people appeared to like > it, but it made an inescapable mess of my hard drive, ultimately causing > me to give up running OS/2 on my second machine at all. Linux isn't OS/2, > of course, but it is like the food that once you've been made sick by it > poorly prepared you're not likely to try it again, even if the recipe has > been refined. I was involved a bit in OS/2 networking - as a contractor to migrate IBM's build farm from six servers I'm not allowed to name to a single OS/2 server which built faster than the old farm of six. This mostly involved primitive shell scripts and several hundred lines of sed script to find the sources lying around on developer PCs and automatically rewrite and consolidate all the makefiles to a form that OS/2 could understand. The OS/2 server could then perform a full rebuild every night. I was told that the original OS/2 mandate was that a dentist would be able to go into a store and buy a box of OS/2, and install it on every PC in their office, and it would just work. Then feature creep happened. Eventually most of the OS/2 networking devs could not configure OS/2 networking - they understood their areas but not the whole thing. After that I've never dared to use OS/2 for anything serious, so I wasn't bitten by the problem you encountered. --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
